APACHES, a people of New Mexico in North America. They are brave, resolute, and warlike, fond of liberty, and the inveterate enemies of tyranny and oppression. Of this disposition the Spaniards had fatal experience towards the end of the last century, when they revolted against the Catholic king, massacred several of his officers, and committed the greatest devastations. Ever since, they have remained the allies, not the subjects, of the Spaniards; and the viceroy of Mexico has been obliged to maintain a more formidable garrison, and a greater number of troops.