Nine hundred and ten Texas troops under Gen. Sam Houston attack approximately 1,200 Mexican troops under President Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto, located at the bend of the San Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou, in present-day La Porte. Nine Texans are killed and 30 wounded.
Date: April 21, 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36, Texas Republic 1836-45
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36, Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano) Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.668411000000
Longitude: -95.130553000000
Longitude: -95.130553000000
Citation:
L. W. Kemp, "San Jacinto, Battle of," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qes04), accessed October 27, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Modified on October 15, 2015. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 133.
Andrew Forest Muir, "San Jacinto Battleground State Park," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/gks04), accessed October 28, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Modified on March 26, 2015. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.]
Event Type:
Date: April 25, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Comanches raid ranches along the Rio Grande between Laredo and Guerrero, killing three Mexicans and stealing horses and mules.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 27.504012000000
Longitude: -99.524485000000
Longitude: -99.524485000000
Citation:
Joseph B Wilkinson, Laredo and the Rio Grande Frontier: a Narrative (Austin: Jenkins Publishing Co., 1975), 147.
Event Type:
Date: April 27, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American Mexican rancho raided by Comanches two miles outside San Antonio. Two or three men and women are killed; three women are wounded.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 29.126981000000
Longitude: -98.418362000000
Longitude: -98.418362000000
Citation:
John J. Linn, Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas. (Austin: State House Press, 1986), 177-78.
Event Type:
Date: May 14, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Approximately 100 Comanches kill two men, John Williams and Howard Haggard, working on the farm of Reuben Hornsby, on the east bank of the Colorado River, east of present-day Austin.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.272680000000
Longitude: -97.769008000000
Longitude: -97.769008000000
Citation:
Thomas W. Cutrer, "Hornsby, Reuben," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fho60), accessed October 28, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 255-61.
Date: May 19, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos, Comanches
Gender: female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A force of several hundred Comanche and Caddo attack Fort Parker, five miles north of present-day Groesbeck. Five settlers killed; five captured, including Cynthia Ann Parker, Rachael Plummer.
Tribe: Caddos, Comanches
Gender: female
Location:
Latitude: 31.563820000000
Longitude: -96.547920000000
Longitude: -96.547920000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837, vol. 1. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002).
Art Leatherwood, "Fort Parker," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/uef13), accessed October 28, 2015. Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical
Association.
Rachael Plummer, Narrative of the captivity and extreme sufferings of Mrs. Clarissa Plummer: wife of the late Mr. James Plummer, of Franklin County (New York: Perry and Cooke, Publishers, 1838)
Event Type:
Date: June 3, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Isaac W. Burton’s rangers capture the Mexican schooner Watchman, with supplies for the Mexican army, in Copano Bay.
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 28.156506000000
Longitude: -97.123234000000
Longitude: -97.123234000000
Citation:
Hobart Huson, "Horse Marines," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qjh01), accessed October 28, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Modified on March 31, 2011. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Event Type:
Date: June 4, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kichais, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Seventeen Anglo settlers are attacked by a party of 50 Kichai (Wichita) and Tawakonis (Wichita) on the road to Nashville near Smith’s Crossing of the Little River, near present-day Cameron. Parson Crouch and Robert Davidson are killed; cattle are killed or driven off.
Tribe: Kichais, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.854434000000
Longitude: -96.933624000000
Longitude: -96.933624000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas. (Austin: L. E.Daniel, 1896), 43-44.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1: 143-46.
Event Type:
Date: June 4, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kichais, Tawakonis
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Henry Walker farmhouse is attacked by Wichitas - Kichai and Tawakonis, eight miles east of present day Cameron; no known casualties.
Tribe: Kichais, Tawakonis
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.829772000000
Longitude: -96.857424000000
Longitude: -96.857424000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas. (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 146-47.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:43-44.
Date: June 7, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) The home of Nathaniel Moore is plundered by Comanches near Bastrop.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.118070000000
Longitude: -97.283312000000
Longitude: -97.283312000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:156.
Event Type:
Date: June 8, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Conrad Rohrer is killed by Comanche raiding party at Thomas Moore farm near Bastrop.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.120606000000
Longitude: -97.244473000000
Longitude: -97.244473000000
Citation:
John Holmes Jenkins III, Recollections of Early Texas: The Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1958), 46-47.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:156.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas. (Austin: Steck Co.,1935), 226.
Event Type:
Date: June 17, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Isaac W. Burton’s rangers capture the Mexican schooners Comanche, and Fanny Butler with supplies for the Mexican army in Copano Bay.
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 28.151209000000
Longitude: -97.129071000000
Longitude: -97.129071000000
Citation:
Hobart Huson, "Horse Marines," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qjh01), accessed October 28, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Modified on March 31, 2011. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Date: July 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Ranger companies led by John J. Robinson and Thomas Robbins are attacked by Indians (probably Comanches) on Sandy Creek, near present-day Leander. Eight Texans are killed; eight wounded.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.469268000000
Longitude: -97.906452000000
Longitude: -97.906452000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:157.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas. (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 226-27.
Date: July 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Capt. William Hill’s company of 50 rangers pursue a party of 20 Caddos from the headwaters of Brushy Creek in present-day Leander to Cannonsnap Creek, seven miles west of present-day Cameron. Three Indians are reported killed.
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.956707000000
Longitude: -97.482026000000
Longitude: -97.482026000000
Citation:
John Holmes Jenkins III, Recollections of Early Texas: The Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1958), 47.
Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 11:490.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas. (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 192-94.
Event Type:
Date: July 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Wichitas, Caddos, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Caddo and Wichita Indians reportedly kill nine Anglos near a Delaware village on the Sulphur River, twenty miles north of present-day Leonard. Comanches are also believed to be involved in the attack.
Tribe: Wichitas, Caddos, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 33.441221000000
Longitude: -96.058956000000
Longitude: -96.058956000000
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): 240-241.
Event Type:
Date: Summer 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Matthew Duty is shot and killed on his farm outside of Bastrop by Indians.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.109779000000
Longitude: -97.307148000000
Longitude: -97.307148000000
Citation:
John Holmes Jenkins III, Recollections of Early Texas: The Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1958), 47.
Event Type:
Date: Summer 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Anglo settlers John Marlin, Laban Menefee and Jarrett Menefee kill four Indians five miles above the Brazos Falls, near present-day Bucksnort.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 31.309752000000
Longitude: -96.996221000000
Longitude: -96.996221000000
Citation:
James T. De Shields, Border Wars of Texas: being an Authentic and Popular Account, in Chronological Order, of the Long and Bitter Conflict Waged Between Savage Indian Tribes and the Pioneer Settlers of Texas, ed. Matt Bradley (Tioga: The Herald Company, 1912), 198.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas. (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 232.
Event Type:
Date: Summer 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American John Edwards is killed on the road from Bastrop to Washington by a party of 10-15 Comanches.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.149442000000
Longitude: -96.790237000000
Longitude: -96.790237000000
Citation:
John Holmes Jenkins III, Recollections of Early Texas: The Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1958), 33.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:156.
Event Type:
Date: August 22, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Two Texas militiamen serving under Captain John Pierson are killed in a fight with Comanches on Coleto Creek, seven miles southwest of Victoria.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.720862000000
Longitude: -97.171201000000
Longitude: -97.171201000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:158.
Event Type:
Date: September 21, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) While searching for a runaway slave along the Guadalupe River below Gonzales, three Anglos are attacked by a party of 40 Caddos. Collin Beason and Maxwell Steel are killed. A third, Leander Beason, escapes.
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.498756000000
Longitude: -97.460996000000
Longitude: -97.460996000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1: 194.
Telegraph and Texas Register, October 4, 1836.
Event Type:
Date: Fall 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Three men are attacked by Indians (probably Comanches) below the Colorado River, in present-day southeast Austin. Two men, Harris and McDonald, are killed, their horses stolen. A third, Blakely, escapes.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.199066000000
Longitude: -97.727941000000
Longitude: -97.727941000000
Citation:
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Gammel Book Co., [1900]), 29.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas. (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 259.
Event Type: