Longitude: -96.881614000000
- Falls
Benjamin Bryant and about 50 Anglo settlers track a party of Anadarkos (Caddos) led by Chief José María who had attacked the Marlin house on January 14. The Texans engage the Indians near the Brazos Falls, four miles south of present-day Marlin. In the ensuing battle, thirteen Anglos are killed and five wounded, with similar Caddo casualties.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:141-145.
Telegraph and Texas Register, January 23, 1839.
John W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 363-367.
Benjamin Franklin Bryant Original Title: Benjamin Franklin Bryant
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Longitude: -96.881614000000
- Falls
Benjamin Bryant and about 50 Anglo settlers track a party of Anadarkos (Caddos) led by Chief José María who had attacked the Marlin house on January 14. The Texans engage the Indians near the Brazos Falls, four miles south of present-day Marlin. In the ensuing battle, thirteen Anglos are killed and five wounded, with similar Caddo casualties.
- Caddos
- Anadarkos
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:141-145.
Telegraph and Texas Register, January 23, 1839.
John W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 363-367.
Benjamin Franklin Bryant Original Title: Benjamin Franklin Bryant
Image Viewed: https://www.geni.com/people/Maj-Benjamin-Bryant/6000000008592091296#/tab/media