GeoCoords:
Latitude: 29.510346000000
Longitude: -97.474832000000
Longitude: -97.474832000000
County:
- Gonzales
Date:
October 5, 1835
Time Period:
Description:
Edward Burleson and twenty colonists engage in a running fight with a dozen Comanches near Gonzales. Several Indians are killed. A German boy in his early teens who had been captured previously is recovered.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Tribe:
Age:
youth (13-18)
Citation:
John J. Linn, Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas (Austin: State House Press, 1986), 108.
Edward Burleson Original Title: General Edward Burleson
Collection: Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Archives and Information Services Division, The Battle of San Jacinto Notebook, The McArdle Notebooks
Image Viewed: https://www.tsl.texas.gov/mcardle/sanjac/sanjac051.html
Image Accessed: May 14, 2015
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 29.510346000000
Longitude: -97.474832000000
Longitude: -97.474832000000
County:
- Gonzales
Date:
October 5, 1835
Event Description:
Edward Burleson and twenty colonists engage in a running fight with a dozen Comanches near Gonzales. Several Indians are killed. A German boy in his early teens who had been captured previously is recovered.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Comanches
Gender:
male
Age:
youth (13-18)
Citation:
John J. Linn, Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas (Austin: State House Press, 1986), 108.
Edward Burleson Original Title: General Edward Burleson
Collection: Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Archives and Information Services Division, The Battle of San Jacinto Notebook, The McArdle Notebooks
Image Viewed: https://www.tsl.texas.gov/mcardle/sanjac/sanjac051.html
Image Accessed: May 14, 2015