Longitude: -99.800015000000
- Menard
Presidial troops from San Antonio encounter and defeat a group of Comanches and Tawakonis (Wichitas) near the San Saba mission (four miles west of present-day Menard) that had been committing depredations on the frontier. A herd of livestock is recovered. Nine Comanches are killed.
Antonio Elosua to Manuel Rudencindo Barragan, November 9, 1832, Bexar Archives, Dolph Briscoe Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Foster Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 144.
Presidial Soldier Original Title: Solodado Mexican Persidial. Soldat des presilos des Etats Internes du Mixique
Image Type: Watercolor and ink on paper
Creator: Lino Sánchez y Tapia
Collection: Thomas W. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Image Citation:
Berlandier, Jean Louis, The Indians of Texas in 1830. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press, 1969, Plate 14
Longitude: -99.800015000000
- Menard
Presidial troops from San Antonio encounter and defeat a group of Comanches and Tawakonis (Wichitas) near the San Saba mission (four miles west of present-day Menard) that had been committing depredations on the frontier. A herd of livestock is recovered. Nine Comanches are killed.
- Comanches
- Wichitas
- Tawakonis
Antonio Elosua to Manuel Rudencindo Barragan, November 9, 1832, Bexar Archives, Dolph Briscoe Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Foster Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 144.
Presidial Soldier Original Title: Solodado Mexican Persidial. Soldat des presilos des Etats Internes du Mixique
Image Type: Watercolor and ink on paper
Creator: Lino Sánchez y Tapia
Collection: Thomas W. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Image Citation:
Berlandier, Jean Louis, The Indians of Texas in 1830. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press, 1969, Plate 14