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Rangers Fight Wichitas near Artesia Wells
Lt. Walter Hudson and a dozen rangers track down a band of roughly sixty Wichitas (Tawakonis) seen near Fort McIntosh,...
Rangers Attack Indians near Laredo
Lt. Walter W. Hudson and his men attack a band of Indians, probably Comanches, near Laredo. The Indians kill two rangers,...
Rangers Attack Comanches at Agua Dulce Creek
Capt. John S. Ford and around sixteen rangers attack a similar number of Comanches at Agua Dulce Creek. Four Indians die in...
Rangers Kill Seven Comanches
Lt. Andrew J. Walker and other rangers including Ed Stevens, attack seven Comanches twelve miles north of present-day San...
Rangers Kill Two Lipan Apaches
A ranger company led by Lt. King tracks a number of Lipan Apaches near Corpus Christi. The rangers find the Indians’...
Rangers Kill Comanches Near Laredo
Lt. Andy Walker and eighteen rangers attack a band of fifteen Comanches at the Arroyo del Gato near Laredo. The rangers...
Burleson’s Fight
En route to Fort McIntosh, Lt. Ed Burleson (son of Gen. Edward Burleson) orders his rangers to attack three Comanche Indians...
Comanches Attacked by Mounted Volunteers
Eighteen mounted volunteers attack a Comanche camp on the headwaters of the Leona River. They kill seven out of the eleven...
Soldiers Kill Three Comanches near Zapata
Lt. John Gibbon orders Cpl. Stanger and ten U.S. troops to track and attack a band of Comanches suspected of raiding....
Rangers Attack Indian Camp
Cpt. Owen Shaw and other rangers attack an Indian camp on San Roque Creek. The rangers kill nine Indians and wound eleven...
Anglos Skirmish with Lipan Apaches
A party of eight Anglo volunteers attack a band of Lipan Apaches near present-day Choke Canyon Reservoir. Three Anglos are...
Kickapoos Kill Indian Agent
Renegade Kickapoos kill Indian agent Jesse Stems and William Leppelman near Fort Belknap. They are subsequently apprehended...
Two Kidnapped Near Fort Belknap
Comanches raid a house near Fort Belknap, carrying off a woman and a twelve-year-old girl. U.S. soldiers pursue the raiders...
Four Indians Killed at Bandera Pass
San Antonio residents pursue a party of Indians who had raided a farmhouse on the Cibolo Creek six days earlier to Bandera...
Wichitas Killed by Texas Rangers
After stealing horses from a ranger company, a party of eleven Wichita (Tawakoni) Indians is pursued and overtaken at the...
Indians Killed on Red River
After stealing horses in Sherman, three Indians are pursued by residents to the Red River. Two Indians are killed; the third...
Three Comanches Killed in San Marcos
Three Comanches steal horses from the farm of General Edward Burleson. They are pursued and killed by Burleson, his son, and...
U.S. Troops Skirmish with Comanches
U.S. troops under the command of Capt. James S. Gillett seek to recover horses stolen by a party of Comanches on the Leona...
San Antonio Residents Killed
Two residents of San Antonio, a man and a woman, are killed by Comanches in response to the death of members of the tribe by...
Wichitas Kill Three Surveyors
A party of surveyors is attacked by Indians, believed to be Wichitas (Wacos), near Johnson’s Station (in present-day west...