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The Battle of Plum Creek was a clash between allied Tonkawa, militia, and Rangers of the Republic of Texas and a huge Comanche war party under Chief Buffalo Hump, which took place near Lockhart, Texas, on August 12, 1840, following the Great Raid of 1840 as that Comanche war party then returned to west Texas. [2]
The Great Raid of 1840 was the largest raid Native Americans ever mounted on white cities in what is now the United States. [3] It followed the Council House Fight , in which Republic of Texas officials attempted to capture and take prisoner 33 Comanche chiefs and their wives, who had earlier promised to deliver 13 white captives they had ...
The Battle of Plum Creek was a conflict in Lockhart, Texas that took place on August 12, 1840. It was an attack led by Chief Buffalo Hump who led a large force of 1,000 Comanche warriors against 200 Texas Rangers in response to the Council House Fight. The Battle Began as a raid where the Comanche party stole livestock and firearms which ...
United States of America vs Kiowa & Comanche: Battle of Coon Creek [4] [5] June 18, 1848 near modern Kinsley, Kansas: Mexican–American War United States of America vs Comanche & Osage: Wakarusa War: November–December 1855 Lawrence, Kansas / Wakarusa River Valley: Bleeding Kansas: 2 Free-Staters vs Border Ruffians: Sacking of Lawrence: May ...
Little is known of Buffalo Hump's early life: education in his youth and training as a warrior, together with his cousin Yellow Wolf (Isaviah, spelled also Sa-viah and sometimes misspelled as Sabaheit, alias Small Wolf), went on under their uncle Mukwooru's ("Spirit Talker") influence and their cursus honorum (i.e., rising through the ranks) was in its full development during the Mexican ...
Battle of Plum Creek, an attack by involving Comanche and Tonkawa tribes near Lockhart, Texas, on August 12, 1840 Plum Creek Railroad Attack , a train derailment in August 1867 Plum Creek Timber , the largest private landowner in the United States
The Council House Fight, often referred to as the Council House Massacre, [1] was a fight between soldiers and officials of the Republic of Texas and a delegation of Comanche chiefs during a peace conference in San Antonio on March 19, 1840.
The Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians during the 19th-century. Conflict between the Plains Indians and the Spanish began before other European and Anglo-American settlers were encouraged—first by Spain and then by the newly Independent Mexican government—to colonize Texas in order to provide a protective-settlement ...