Three hundred Comanches appear at Laredo, where they remain for four days, stealing cattle and horses.
Date: August 1830
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 27.550062000000
Longitude: -99.468120000000
Longitude: -99.468120000000
Citation:
Joseph B. Wilkinson, Laredo and the Rio Grande Frontier: A Narrative (Austin: Jenkins Publishing Co., 1975), 126-27.
Event Type:
Date: August 1830
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Wacos, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American A Mexican force of approximately 150 men burn Waco and Tawakoni villages along the Brazos River near present-day Waco.
Tribe: Wacos, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.518549000000
Longitude: -97.065475000000
Longitude: -97.065475000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 141.
Event Type:
Date: 1830
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American Mexican troops attack Tawakonis (Wichita) on San Gabriel River (then known as the San Xavier River). Eight Tawakonis are killed.
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.689877000000
Longitude: -97.170599000000
Longitude: -97.170599000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 142.
Event Type:
Date: 1830
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Kichais, Wacos
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Austin colonists skirmish with Wacos (Wichita) and Kichais (Wichita) on Caney Creek, near present-day Athens. Seven Indians and one colonist (William Cooper) are killed.
Tribe: Kichais, Wacos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.234458000000
Longitude: -95.906633000000
Longitude: -95.906633000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. Maclean, Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 5:40.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 208-09.
Event Type:
Date: 1831
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis, Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American Captain Manuel Lafuente and two hundred Mexican troops attack a Tawakoni (Wichita) hunting camp at Cowhouse Creek, above the creek’s intersection with the Leon River, fifteen miles northwest of present-day Belton. Eight Tawakonis are killed.
Tribe: Tawakonis, Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.291450000000
Longitude: -97.483925000000
Longitude: -97.483925000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 142.
Brian Delay, War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S. Mexican War (Yale University Press, 2008), 35-37.
Event Type:
Date: 1831
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Fleeing westward after an attack by Mexican troops on their camp at Cowhouse Creek earlier in November, a band of Tawakonis (Wichita) is pursued and attacked by a force of two hundred Mexican troops between the Llano and Pedernales rivers.
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.581910000000
Longitude: -98.297695000000
Longitude: -98.297695000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 142.
Event Type:
Date: 1831
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Caddos, Wichitas
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A force of 124 Wichita and 40 Caddo attack Rezin P. Bowie and a party of nine Anglo-American treasure hunters near an abandoned Spanish silver mine, six miles east of present-day Menard, on the San Saba River. Six whites are wounded and one killed.
Tribe: Caddos, Wichitas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.920119000000
Longitude: -99.779287000000
Longitude: -99.779287000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 19-23.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 91-98.
Date: December 6-7, 1831
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American A 35-man presidial company skirmishes with and disperses a group of Indians, probably Comanches, on the outskirts of San Antonio. No report of casualties.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.410673000000
Longitude: -98.694340000000
Longitude: -98.694340000000
Citation:
Manuel Rudencindo Barragan to Antonio Elosua, November 5 1831, Bexar Archives, Dolph Briscoe Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Event Type:
Date: December 14, 1831
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of Indians, probably Comanches, break into animal pens at the ranch of Father Florentino Ramos near San Antonio and take a servant girl captive.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 29.352932000000
Longitude: -98.684079000000
Longitude: -98.684079000000
Citation:
Antonio Elozua to Captain of the Company of the Rio Grande, December 30 1831, Bexar Archives, Dolph Briscoe Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Event Type:
Date: January 1832
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches, Shawnees
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American A party of Comanches is attacked by Shawnees at Bandera Pass, 11 miles north of present day Bandera. Twenty Comanches are killed.
Tribe: Comanches, Shawnees
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.840393000000
Longitude: -99.093242000000
Longitude: -99.093242000000
Citation:
H. Allen Anderson, “The Delaware and Shawnee Indians and the Republic of Texas, 1820-1845,” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 94, no. 2 (Oct 1990): 237-38.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 3:460-1.
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 143.
Henderson K. Yoakum, History of Texas: from its First Settlement in 1865 to its Annexation to the United States in 1846 (Austin, Steck Co., 1953), 310.
Event Type:
Date: January 1832
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches, Shawnees
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American Mexican troops from San Antonio assist Shawnees in pursuing Comanches who had earlier been defeated near Bandera Pass. Thirty Comanches are reported killed, probably near present-day Kerrville.
Tribe: Comanches, Shawnees
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.039787000000
Longitude: -99.154579000000
Longitude: -99.154579000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 143.
Event Type:
Date: February 1832
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American Mexican troops led by Capt. Manuel Barragán attack Comanche encampment on the Llano River, near present-day Junction. A dozen Comanches are killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.483699000000
Longitude: -99.770279000000
Longitude: -99.770279000000
Citation:
F, Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 144.
Event Type:
Date: May 1832
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Comanches kill a party of woodcutters and capture a young boy near Goliad.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.673366000000
Longitude: -97.405757000000
Longitude: -97.405757000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 142
Event Type:
Date: June 26-29, 1832
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) In the first major conflict between Anglo colonists and the Mexican government, a force of 100-150 Anglos under John Austin and Henry Smith attack Fort Velasco (present-day Surfside Beach). Approximately ten Texans are killed and eleven wounded. The Mexican garrison commanded by Col.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.946286000000
Longitude: -95.293251000000
Longitude: -95.293251000000
Citation:
"Velasco, Battle of," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qfv01), accessed August 18, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Event Type:
Date: June 28, 1832
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Two days after the attack on Fort Velasco by Anglo colonists, a slave on the Sterling McNeel plantation, was shot trying to escape.
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.181491000000
Longitude: -95.669788000000
Longitude: -95.669788000000
Citation:
Mary Boddie, Thunder on the Brazos, Taylor Publishing Company, 1978, 12.
Event Type:
Date: August 1832
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Anglo immigrant H. Reed is killed by a party of eight Wacos (Wichitas) near Tenoxtitlan, 14 miles northeast of present-day Caldwell.
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.636003000000
Longitude: -96.666092000000
Longitude: -96.666092000000
Citation:
Eugene C. Barker, ed., The Austin Papers (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1924), 2:836, 848-49.
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 25.
Event Type:
Date: August 1832
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Wichitas, Caddos, Delawares
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American A band of eight Wacos (Wichita) is pursued and caught by a party of Caddos and Delawares on the Little River. Five Wacos are killed.
Tribe: Wichitas, Caddos, Delawares
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.953387000000
Longitude: -97.377588000000
Longitude: -97.377588000000
Citation:
Eugene C. Barker, ed., The Austin Papers (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1924), 2:836, 848-49.
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 25.
Event Type:
Date: August 2-3, 1832
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) A battle for control of Nacogdoches results in the deaths of 47 Mexican troops and four Anglo-Texan colonists. Mexican troops under the command of Col. José de las Piedras evacuate the town.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.611503000000
Longitude: -94.647639000000
Longitude: -94.647639000000
Citation:
Archie P. McDonald, "Nacogdoches, Battle of," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qen01), accessed August 18, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Event Type:
Date: August 3, 1832
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Retreating Mexican troops surrender to Anglo-Texan colonists at Durst farm (near present day Douglas) in aftermath of Battle of Nacogdoches.
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 31.668721000000
Longitude: -94.883473000000
Longitude: -94.883473000000
Citation:
Archie P. McDonald, "Nacogdoches, Battle of," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qen01), accessed August 18, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Event Type:
Date: October 23, 1832
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches, Tawakonis
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American 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.
Tribe: Comanches, Tawakonis
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.922203000000
Longitude: -99.800015000000
Longitude: -99.800015000000
Citation:
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.
Event Type: