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Laredo Skirmish
Erastus “Deaf” Smith skirmishes with Mexican defensores (militia) outside Laredo. Ten Mexicans are killed, ten...
Córdova Revolt
The Córdova revolt is discovered when two of Vicente Córdova’s men kill an Anglo Texan resident of Nacogdoches who is...
Córdova Rebels Attack Texas Militia
Two miles west of present-day Palestine, a force of 175 militia men under Leonard H. Mabbitt is attacked by Mexican and...
Battle at Kickapoo Village
Supporters of Vicente Córdova--a force that included Mexicans, blacks, Kickapoos, Delawares, Caddos, Coushattas, and...
Battle of the Neches
At a Delaware village west of the Neches River, about 19 miles southeast of present-day Canton, 500 Texans under General...
Land Speculators Revolt Against Mexican Government
Land speculators Haden and Benjamin Edwards call upon Nacogdoches residents to join them in a revolt against the Mexican...
Soldiers Attack Lipan Apache Camp
Believing Lipan Apaches had raided a ranch forty miles south of San Antonio in December, Gen. William Harney dispatches...
Soldiers Kill Comanches Near Zapata
A company of U.S. troops led by Lt. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte track a party of Comanches to present-day Remadura de Charco...
Three Wichitas Die at Fort Belknap
U.S. troops under Capt. Henry H. Sibley detain a party of more than twenty Wichitas (Taovayas) at Fort Belknap. Preferring...
Troops Attack Lipan Apaches
Lt. George B. Cosby and eleven men attack an encampment of forty Lipan Apaches at Trinidad Lake, near present-day Ben Bolt....
Soldiers Attack Lipan Apache Camp
Cpl. William Wright and a number of other soldiers attack a Lipan Apache camp at Arroyo Baluarte, five miles south of...
Troops Skirmish with Comanches Near San Diego
Sixteen soldiers led by Capt. Michael E. Van Buren engage a band of Comanches in the vicinity of San Diego. The US troops...
U.S. Troops Attack Indians near Carrizo Springs
Capt. Llewellyn Jones and eleven of his men overtake a party of Indians about four miles outside of Carrizo Springs. One...
U.S. Troops and Lipan Apaches Skirmish at the Sierra Diablo
Capt. John G. Walker and his men track down a 300-strong Indian host at the Sierra Diablo, eighty miles west of present-day...
U.S. Troops Skirmish with Lipan Apaches on Live Oak Creek
U.S. infantry under the command of Capt. Benjamin H. Arthur fight Lipan Apaches on Live Oak Creek, near Batesville. The...
U.S. Troops and Lipan Apaches Skirmish Near Fort Davis
U.S. infantry fight Lipan Apaches at Fort Davis, losing three men in the skirmish.
U.S. Troops Skirmish with Mescalero Apaches
The U.S. Cavalry under Captain Charles F. Ruff fight fifteen Mescalero Apaches at Eagle Springs, some twenty miles southeast...
U.S. Troops Kill Three Wichitas on the Nueces River
U.S. troops led by Capt. James Oakes attack a small party of Wichita (Waco) warriors at the headwaters of the Nueces River,...
U.S. Troops Kill Three Indians at the Headwaters of the Guadalupe River
While on a scouting mission under the command of Capt. Albert G.Brackett, a U.S. cavalry unit encounters an encampment of...
Comanches Killed by U.S. Troops
Sanaco, a Comanche chief, and fifteen to twenty other Comanches arrive at Fort Chadbourne. U.S. troops, suspecting them...