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Settlers Fight Comanches on Squaw Creek
Settlers fight a number of Comanches on Squaw Creek, about two miles northeast of present-day Glen Rose. One settler is...
Texas Rangers Attack Comanches at Buffalo Gap
Lt. T. C. Wright and eleven rangers ambush a larger number of Comanches at Buffalo Gap. At least three rangers sustain...
Settlers Fight Indians on San Saba River
A party of settlers, including Alex Hall, Jr., tracks the group of Indians that had killed Alexander “Beardy” Hall to Jerry...
Confederate Soldiers Fight Comanches near Red River
Confederate soldiers and Cooke County residents fight more than 100 Comanches about three miles south of South Fish Creek,...
Elm Creek Raid
A party of about 500 Comanches and Kiowas, including Chief Satanta, raid ranches along the Elm Creek tributary of the Brazos...
First Battle of Adobe Walls
In one of the largest battles fought between whites and Indians on the Great Plains, a force of more than 300 U.S. cavalry,...
Battle of Dove Creek
A combined force of 486 Texas militiamen and Confederate soldiers attack a Kickapoo camp on Dove Creek, nearby present-day...
Settlers Fight Comanches on the Leona River
Eleven settlers elected Levi English captain and tracked 36 Comanches to the junction of the Leona and Frio Rivers. A...
Lipan Apaches Kill Concan Settler
Lipan Apaches kill Andrew Henry Robinson during a raid in the vicinity of Concan, 24 miles north of Uvalde. Area settlers...
Kiowas Fight Settler Party at Goshen Creek
A group of settlers tracks a raiding party of Kiowas to Goshen Creek, northwest of present-day Azle. Alvin A. Clark is...
Settler Party Fights Indians outside Milsap
A party of settlers tracks a group of unidentified Indians to Bennett, near present-day Milsap. One settler, Andrew Jackson...
Comanches and Kiowas Fight Settlers on the Wichita River
After attacking settlers near Montague, a band of sixty Comanches and Kiowas fight 25 settlers on the banks of the Wichita...
Cedar Gap Raid
A party of 40 settlers attack a Comanche camp near Gap Creek in Brown County. They kill seven Comanches and wound four...
U.S. Cavalry Attacks Indian Camp on Lower Pecos River
A cavalry unit led by Capt. John A. Wilcox attacks an unidentified Indian camp on the lower Pecos River, near present-day...
U.S. Troops Attack Comanches
Sgt. W.A.F. Ahrberg leads forty-five soldiers and twenty-two Indian scouts in an attack on a band of Comanches suspected of...
Big Tree’s Raid
Kiowa Chief Big Tree leads 300 Kiowas and Comanches on a raid through Cooke County and southeast Montague County. Attacking...
U.S. Troops Attack Indians at Hubbard Creek
U.S. soldiers track the Indians that had killed George Hazlewood near Hubbard Creek. The soldiers catch up to the party and...
U.S. Cavalry Attack Comanche Camp at Paint Creek
Capt. Adna R. Chaffee leads two detachments of cavalrymen to a Comanche encampment at Paint Creek, thirty miles southwest of...
Indians Kill Three Blanco County Settlers
Twenty-one unidentified Indians attack settlers near North Cypress Creek in Blanco County. They kill three and briefly take...
Expedition Tracks Apaches to Santiago Mountains
A combined force of sixty U.S. soldiers and forty-five Mexican-Americans track Lipan and Mescalero Apaches suspected of...