Anglos Pursue Comanche Raiding Party near San Antonio
Capt. George Howard and fifteen men pursue a Comanche raiding party in response to the killing of two San Antonio residents...
San Antonio Resident Killed by Comanches
A Mexican cartman is killed outside San Antonio while taking his oxen out to pasture.
Vásquez Expedition Captures San Antonio
Several Mexican soldiers under the command of Gen. Rafael Vasquez are killed in a gunpowder explosion during their...
Battle of Salado Creek
In response to the capture of San Antonio one week earlier, more than 200 Texas volunteers engage Mexican troops under the...
Dawson Fight
In an effort to reinforce Anglo-Texas volunteers engaged in the defense of San Antonio at Salado Creek, a company of fifty-...
San Antonio Farmer Killed
A Mexican farmer is killed by Indians (probably Comanches) near the Alamo.
San Antonio Farmer Killed
A Mexican farmer is killed by Indians (probably Comanches) near the Alamo.
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...
Comanches Kill Two near San Antonio
A small party of Texas troops is attacked by Indians, probably Comanches, two and a half miles southeast of San Antonio. Two...
Comanches Attack Anglos near San Antonio
Several men are killed between Guadalupe River and San Antonio, including a young man from the Lockhart family. Josiah Power...
Wichitas Raid Little River Farm
Tawakonis (Wichita) raid John Walker’s home on Little River. One family member killed. Reports of other Anglos killed in...
Wichitas Skirmish with Caddos and Delawares
A band of eight Wacos (Wichita) is pursued and caught by a party of Caddos and Delawares on the Little River. Five Wacos...
Caddo Chief Executed
A force of 60 Texas volunteers captures four Indians--two Caddos, chief Canoma and his son, and two Cherokees--near the...
Wichitas Raid Joseph Taylor Farm
A party of fifteen Wacos (Wichitas) or Caddos raid the farm of Joseph Taylor near Three Forks of the Little River, three...
Indians Raid Fort Smith
Indians stampede horses near Fort Smith, at the junction of the Leon and Lampasas Rivers, five miles southeast of present...
Bird’s Creek Indian Fight
Thirty-five Rangers under Capt. John Bird engage a combined force of more than 20 Caddos, Kickapoos and Comanches at Bird...
Owl Creek Settlers Killed
Indians attack two men and a white youth in the vicinity of Owl Creek, near Gatesville. Both men are killed; the youth...
Indians Attack Settlements on Nolan Creek
Between two and three dozen Indians attack homesteads along Nolan Creek, eight miles west of preset-day Temple. The Indians...
Deserters Killed by Indians
Two deserters of Edward Burleson’s Frontier Regiment are found killed, probably by Comanche Indians, near the fork of the...
Caddos Raid Salado Creek Settlement
A raiding party of 20 Caddos kill three men, Henry, Castleberry and Courtney, on Salado Creek, twenty miles north of present...