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Lipan Apaches Kill Maj. Charles Bryant
Lipan Apaches attack a group of rangers led by Maj. Charles Bryant some ten miles outside of Refugio near Chocolate Bay....
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,...
Comanches Attack Rangers at San Roque Creek
Comanches attack Capt. John S. Ford and his men while they are patrolling near San Roque Creek, a few miles west of present-...
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...
Comanches Attack a Mail Convoy
Escorting mail delivery from Fort Merrill to Laredo, Lt. Charles Underwood and his men sustain an attack from Comanches near...
Rangers Kill Seven Comanches
Lt. Andrew J. Walker and other rangers including Ed Stevens, attack seven Comanches twelve miles north of present-day San...
Comanches Attack Texas Rangers
A large party of 100 Comanches attack a ranger camp at San Antonio Viejo in present-day Jim Hogg County. One Indian is...
Rangers Fight Comanches at Todos Santos Creek
Twenty rangers under Captain "Bigfoot" Wallace discover approximately 80 Comanches at Todos Santos Creek ten miles south of...
Indians Kill Two Rangers
Twenty-six Indians attack three rangers between San Antonio and the Rio Grande. The Indians kill rangers John L. Wilbarger...
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...
Indians Kill One at Agua Dulce Creek
Twenty-five Indians attack a party of thirteen mustangers at Agua Dulce Creek. The Indians kill one and wound three others.
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....
Battle of Hynes Bay
Citizens of Refugio County organize a posse of twenty to thirty volunteers and attack a Karankawa camp on the shores of...
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...
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...