He is talking about lets make peace with everybody else and go after these guys. Lets attack the apaches and end these raids on new mexico and other spanish settlements. What makes it so difficult to defend new mexico and other spanish settlements . What is the strategic difficulty . Sam . It is a big place. It is a large colony. It is thinly settled, so it is not densely populated. You have a large area with a lot of outlying ranches and small villages. What is the great danger for a Spanish Ranch in the 1750s . Yeah. Go ahead. The apaches could burn your house, do a little dance, and leave before anyone realized what was happening. Exactly. The spanish cannot keep a military force at every ranch in new mexico. They have all these dispersed settlements. All of these are highly vulnerable. The apaches are mobile. They can attack in outlying settlement and the spanish cannot do much about it. On page 308, he talks about the people of new mexico. Because of extreme poverty, they are wort
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