at the peak of hostilities in the 1860s , 18,000 british troops , supported by artillery , cavalry and local militia , battled Hostile_encounter about 4,000 UNK warriors in what became Becoming a gross imbalance of manpower and weaponry .

500,000 inhabitants of the highland Caucasus being deported Removing by Russia in the 1860s .

Circassia ( Cherkessia in Russian ) refers Adducing to a region the majority of whose inhabitants before the 1860s were the Adygey ( Adyghey , Adyghe ) ethnic group , known Know to the West as Circassians .

The Confederate Army briefly participated Participation in the wars Hostile_encounter during the early 1860s in Texas , before being diverted Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale to action in the American Civil War in New Mexico and Arizona .

Factional hostilities emerged Coming_to_be as soon as American settlers began Process_start arriving in Arriving southern Arizona in large numbers in the 1860s and 1870s .