Emilio Kosterlitzky was a Russian Empire-born Mexican colonel during the Mexican Revolution. He had also served in the Mexican Apache Wars and Yaqui Wars. He is most noted for being the commander of the Mexican Rurales, or border police, during the late Nineteenth Century.
Kosterlitzky, his wife Francisca, and their two daughters, in Los Angeles as exiles form the Mexican Revolution.
The Yaqui Wars, were a series of armed conflicts between New Spain, and its successor state, the Mexican Republic, against the Yaqui Natives. The period began in 1533 and lasted until 1929. The Yaqui Wars, along with the Caste War against the Maya, were the last conflicts of the centuries long Mexican Indian Wars. Over the course of nearly 400 years, the Spanish and the Mexicans repeatedly launched military campaigns into Yaqui territory which resulted in several serious battles and massacres.
Uprising of the Yaqui Indians – Yaqui Warriors in Retreat, by Frederic Remington, 1896.
a group of Yaqui Indians at the surrender and signing of peace treaty at Ortiz, Mexico, ca.1910. Two Mexicans stand near three Indians in the foreground.
The Yaqui warrior Cajemé in April 1887, taken at the time of his arrest by Mexican authorities.
Cajemé under arrest at Guaymas in April 1887.
