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The settlers were armed with single-shot weapons, which the Comanche, in particular, had learned very well to counter. Certainly the Spanish, then the Mexicans, and later the Texans had learned that single-shot weapons were not enough to defeat the deadly Comanche light horse, whose mastery of cavalry tactics and mounted bowmanship were ...
The Old Army in Texas: A Research Guide to the U.S. Army in Nineteenth-Century Texas is a 2000 military history book by Thomas T. Smith about the United States Army in Texas during the 19th century. The book was published by the Texas State Historical Association. The book received a second edition published by Texas A&M University Press in 2020.
Comanche power peaked in the 1840s when they conducted large-scale raids hundreds of miles into Mexico proper, while also warring against the Anglo-Americans and Tejanos who had settled in independent Texas. Their power declined as epidemics of cholera and smallpox caused thousands of Comanche deaths and as continuous pressure from the ...
First Regiment of Texas Mounted Rifle Volunteers, unofficially known as Hays's Texas Rangers, was a United States Volunteer regiment raised in June 1846, with a core of Texas Rangers, for service in the Mexican–American War. The regiment distinguished itself at the Battle of Monterrey. It was disbanded with the end of active operations in ...
The Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political and Social History 1835–1836. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 0-89096-497-1. Roell, Craig H. (1994). Remember Goliad! A History of La Bahia. Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series. Austin, TX: Texas State Historical Association. ISBN 0-87611-141-X.
Fort Griffin, now a Texas state historic site as Fort Griffin State Historic Site, was a US Cavalry fort established 31 July 1867 by four companies of the Sixth Cavalry, U.S. Army [2] under the command of Lt. Col. S. D. Sturgis, [3]: 64 in the western part of North Texas, specifically northwestern Shackelford County, to give settlers protection from early Comanche and Kiowa raids.
As Texas tries to contain the biggest wildfire in the state’s history, baseless conspiracy theories that first circulated online after other well-known fires are resurfacing.
On July 28, they issued a call for help from the local settlements. Messengers were sent out requesting military assistance. Samuel S. Lewis and Bailey Anderson, Jr. brought men to Nacogdoches from the area surrounding the Ayish Bayou, John M. Bradley brought men from the San Augustine area, and James Bradshaw brought a company from the Neches settlement.