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Coleto Creek Fight
Two Texas militiamen serving under Captain John Pierson are killed in a fight with Comanches on Coleto Creek, seven miles...
Mexican Troops Raid San Antonio Ranch
Mexican militia commander Manuel Savariego raids Alexander ranch, 20 miles southwest of San Antonio, and captures...
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...
Battle of Red River
In the first major battle of the Red River War, six hundred U.S. soldiers under the command of Nelson A Miles engage roughly...
U.S. Soldiers Fight Kiowas and Comanches
Four U.S. soldiers encounter an unknown number of Kiowa and Comanche Indians on Whitefish Creek in northeast Donley County....
Battle of Lyman’s Wagon Train
More than 400 Kiowas and Comanches attack a wagon train on the Upper Washita River, on the eastern edge of the Panhandle,...
Buffalo Wallow Fight
Four U.S. soldiers and two civilian scouts are surrounded by 100 Kiowas and Comanches near the junction of Gageby Creek and...
Battle of Sweetwater Creek
Two hundred U.S. troops led by Maj. William R. Price encounter four hundred Kiowas and Comanches between Sweetwater Creek...
U.S. Soldiers Attack Comanches
A sixteen-man detachment of Texas Rangers led by Lt. B. F. Best attack a small group of Comanches near Brownwood. They kill...
U.S. Troops Fight Comanches
U.S. soldiers and three black Seminole scouts led by Lt. John L. Bullis attack roughly 30 Comanches at Eagle Nest Creek....
Texas Rangers Attack Comanches
About twenty Texas Rangers in Maj. John B. Jones Frontier Battalion attack seven Comanches after spotting them from Spy Knob...
U.S. Troops Fight Comanches
Lt. Andrew Geddes leads U.S. soldiers and Black Seminole Scouts in an attack on Comanches at the mouth of the Pecos River...
Buffalo Soldiers Attack Comanches
Capt. Phillip L. Lee and 42 African-American soldiers attack a group of Comanches near present-day Morton. They kill at...
Texas Rangers Attack Comanches
Capt. Junius Peake and seven rangers attack 25 Comanches near the headwaters of the North Concho River, south of Big Spring...