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With their positions quickly forming, twenty nine soldiers, including General Ramírez, reached the port at the mouth of the river at Boca de Yuma to receive the military aid sent from Puerto Rico by Governor Montes. The war materials had been shipped in a brig and a schooner—and consisted of a gunboat, four rifles with bayonets, a hundred ...
The Yuma War was the name given to a series of United States military operations conducted in southern California and what is today southwestern Arizona from 1850 to 1853. The Quechan (also known as Yuma) were the primary opponent of the United States Army , though engagements were fought between the Americans and other native groups in the region.
Keegan Field. / 32.686684°N 114.611172°W / 32.686684; -114.611172. Keegan Field is an amateur sports field located in Yuma, Arizona, United States. The 4‐acre athletic facility contains a softball field with lights for night games and is part of the larger 32-acre Kennedy Park Athletic Complex. [1] It was named in honor of Frances ...
Washington, 1857, Volume I. The Quechan ( Quechan: Kwatsáan 'those who descended'), or Yuma, are a Native American tribe who live on the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation on the lower Colorado River in Arizona and California just north of the Mexican border. [2] Despite their name, they are not related to the Quechua people of the Andes.
History. Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park is on the grounds of the former Yuma Quartermaster Depot. The depot was established by the U.S. Army in 1864 to store and distribute supplies to frontier army posts in what is now Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and Utah. [1] [2] One purpose of the depot was to ensure that a six-month ...
Alfred Griffin, caretaker of the Yuma Grammar school. The Peter Hodge House located at 209 Orange Ave. was built in 1905 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places on December 7, 1982, reference #82001638. The E. B. Jackson House located at 572 1st.
Desert Sun Stadium. Desert Sun Stadium is a converted soccer-specific stadium in Yuma, Arizona, originally built for baseball. It was the spring training home of the San Diego Padres from 1970 through 1993, the North American League 's Yuma Scorpions minor league baseball team, the Arizona Winter League, and the Arizona Summer League.
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