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Comanche Wars, the Glossary

The Comanche Wars were a series of armed conflicts fought between Comanche peoples and Spanish, Mexican, and American militaries and civilians in the United States and Mexico from as early as 1706 until at least the mid-1870s.^[1]

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American frontier

The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few contiguous western territories as states in 1912.

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Antelope Hills expedition

The Antelope Hills expedition was a campaign from January to May 1858 by the Texas Rangers and members of other allied Native American tribes against Comanche and Kiowa villages in the Comancheria. Comanche Wars and Antelope Hills expedition are Texas–Indian Wars and wars between the United States and Native Americans.

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Apache

The Apache are several Southern Athabaskan language–speaking peoples of the Southwest, the Southern Plains and Northern Mexico.

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Arapaho

The Arapaho (Arapahos, Gens de Vache) are a Native American people historically living on the plains of Colorado and Wyoming.

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Battle of Blanco Canyon

The Battle of Blanco Canyon was the decisive battle of Col. Comanche Wars and battle of Blanco Canyon are Texas–Indian Wars.

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Battle of Little Robe Creek

The Battle of Little Robe Creek, also known as the Battle of Antelope Hills and the Battle of the South Canadian, took place on May 12, 1858. Comanche Wars and Battle of Little Robe Creek are Texas–Indian Wars.

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Battle of Palo Duro Canyon

The Battle of Palo Duro Canyon was a military confrontation and a significant United States victory during the Red River War. Comanche Wars and Battle of Palo Duro Canyon are Texas–Indian Wars.

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Battle of Pease River

The Battle of Pease River, also known as the Pease River Massacre or the Pease River fight, occurred on December 19, 1860, near present-day Margaret, Texas in Foard County, Texas, United States. Comanche Wars and Battle of Pease River are Texas–Indian Wars.

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Battle of Plum Creek

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 the Comanche war party returned to west Texas. Comanche Wars and Battle of Plum Creek are Texas–Indian Wars.

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Buffalo Hump

Buffalo Hump (Comanche Potsʉnakwahipʉ "Erection That Won't Go Down" euphamized to "Buffalo Bull's Back") (born c. 1800 — died post 1861 / ante 1867) was a War Chief of the Penateka band of the Comanches. Comanche Wars and Buffalo Hump are Native American history of Texas and Texas–Indian Wars.

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Buffalo Hunters' War

The Buffalo Hunters' War, or the Staked Plains War, occurred in 1877. Comanche Wars and Buffalo Hunters' War are Texas–Indian Wars and wars involving the indigenous peoples of North America.

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Caddo

The Caddo people comprise the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma, a federally recognized tribe headquartered in Binger, Oklahoma.

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Cheyenne

The Cheyenne are an Indigenous people of the Great Plains.

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Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes

The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes are a united, federally recognized tribe of Southern Arapaho and Southern Cheyenne people in western Oklahoma.

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Chihuahua (state)

Chihuahua, officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua (Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 federal entities of Mexico.

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Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (Choctaw: Chahta Okla) is a Native American reservation occupying portions of southeastern Oklahoma in the United States.

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Cholera

Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

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Colorado

Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Comanche

The Comanche or Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Nʉmʉnʉʉ, "the people") is a Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States. Comanche Wars and Comanche are Native American history of Texas and Texas–Indian Wars.

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Comanche campaign

The Comanche campaign is a general term for military operations by the United States government against the Comanche tribe in the newly settled west. Comanche Wars and Comanche campaign are Indian wars of the American Old West, Native American history of Texas and wars between the United States and Native Americans.

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Comanche–Mexico Wars

The Comanche–Mexico Wars was the Mexican theater of the Comanche Wars, a series of conflicts from 1821 to 1870. Comanche Wars and Comanche–Mexico Wars are Comanche history, Indian wars of the American Old West, Native American history of Texas and wars involving the indigenous peoples of North America.

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Comancheria

The Comancheria or Comanchería (Comanche: Nʉmʉnʉʉ Sookobitʉ, 'Comanche land') was a region of New Mexico, west Texas and nearby areas occupied by the Comanche before the 1860s. Comanche Wars and Comancheria are Native American history of Texas.

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Council House Fight

The Council House Fight, often referred to as the Council House Massacre, 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. Comanche Wars and Council House Fight are Texas–Indian Wars.

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Cynthia Ann Parker

Cynthia Ann Parker, Naduah, Narua, or Preloch (Na'ura,,; October 28, 1827 – March 1871), was a woman who was captured, aged around nine, by a Comanche band during the Fort Parker massacre in 1836, where several of her relatives were killed. Comanche Wars and Cynthia Ann Parker are Comanche history, Native American history of Texas and Texas–Indian Wars.

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First Battle of Adobe Walls

The First Battle of Adobe Walls took place between the United States Army and Native Americans. Comanche Wars and First Battle of Adobe Walls are Native American history of Texas and Texas–Indian Wars.

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Foard County, Texas

Foard County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Fort Parker

The Fort Laramie Indian Treaty of 1868, which closed travel on the Bozeman Trail and the Yellowstone Valley, stipulated that the re-defined Crow Reserve would have a new "centerpoint" or agency for the Crow.

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Fort Parker massacre

The Fort Parker massacre, also known as the Fort Parker raid, was an event in which a group of Texian colonists were killed in an attack by a contingent of Comanche, Kiowa, Caddo, and Wichita raiders at Fort Parker on May 19, 1836. Comanche Wars and Fort Parker massacre are Native American history of Texas and Texas–Indian Wars.

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Great Plains

The Great Plains are a broad expanse of flatland in North America.

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Great Raid of 1840

The Great Raid of 1840 was the largest raid ever mounted by Native Americans on white cities in what is now the United States. Comanche Wars and Great Raid of 1840 are Texas–Indian Wars.

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Iron Jacket

Iron Jacket (Puhihwikwasu'u,; born died 1858) was a Native American War Chief and Chief of the Quahadi band of Comanche Indians.

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John Richard Parker

John Henry Parker (1830–1915) was the brother of Cynthia Ann Parker and the uncle of Comanche chief Quanah Parker. Comanche Wars and John Richard Parker are Texas–Indian Wars.

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Kansas

Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Kiowa

Kiowa or Cáuigú) people are a Native American tribe and an Indigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States. They migrated southward from western Montana into the Rocky Mountains in Colorado in the 17th and 18th centuries,Pritzker 326 and eventually into the Southern Plains by the early 19th century.

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Kit Carson

Christopher Houston Carson (December 24, 1809 – May 23, 1868) was an American frontiersman.

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Lawrence Sullivan Ross

Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross (September 27, 1838January 3, 1898) was the 19th governor of Texas, a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War, and the 4th president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, now called Texas A&M University.

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Lenape

The Lenape (Lenape languages), also called the Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada.

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Lockhart, Texas

Lockhart is a city and the county seat of Caldwell County, Texas, United States.

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Medicine Lodge Treaty

The Medicine Lodge Treaty is the overall name for three treaties signed near Medicine Lodge, Kansas, between the Federal government of the United States and southern Plains Indian tribes in October 1867, intended to bring peace to the area by relocating the Native Americans to reservations in Indian Territory and away from European-American settlement.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Mirabeau B. Lamar

Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (August 16, 1798 – December 19, 1859) was an American attorney, politician, poet, and leading political figure during the Texas Republic era.

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Nadaco

The Nadaco, also commonly known as the Anduico, are a Native American tribe from eastern Texas. Comanche Wars and Nadaco are Native American history of Texas.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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New Spain

New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de Nueva España; Nahuatl: Yankwik Kaxtillan Birreiyotl), originally the Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain.

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Choctaw: Oklahumma) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Peta Nocona

Peta Nocona, also known as Puhtocnocony, or Tah-con-ne-ah-pe-ah (– 1864), the son of Puhihwikwasu'u, or Iron Jacket, was a chief of the Comanche Quahadi (also known as Kwahado, Quahada) band. Comanche Wars and Peta Nocona are Native American history of Texas.

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Plains Apache

The Plains Apache are a small Southern Athabaskan tribe who live on the Southern Plains of North America, in close association with the linguistically unrelated Kiowa Tribe.

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Quanah Parker

Quanah Parker (Kwana,; – February 23, 1911) was a war leader of the Kwahadi ("Antelope") band of the Comanche Nation. Comanche Wars and Quanah Parker are Native American history of Texas.

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Rachel Plummer

Rachel Parker Plummer (March 22, 1819 – March 19, 1839) was the daughter of James W. Parker and the cousin of Quanah Parker, last free-roaming chief of the Comanches. Comanche Wars and Rachel Plummer are Texas–Indian Wars.

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Red River War

The Red River War was a military campaign launched by the United States Army in 1874 to displace the Comanche, Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes from the Southern Plains, and forcibly relocate the tribes to reservations in Indian Territory. Comanche Wars and red River War are Indian wars of the American Old West and wars between the United States and Native Americans.

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Republic of Texas

The Republic of Texas (República de Tejas), or simply Texas, was a breakaway state in North America that existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846.

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Sam Houston

Samuel Houston (March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was an American general and statesman who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution.

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San Antonio

San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio, the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 2.6 million people in the 2020 US census.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche_Wars

Also known as Spanish-Comanche wars.

, Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, San Antonio, Shawnee, Smallpox, Spain, Spanish Empire, Tawakoni, Tejanos, Texas, Texas Ranger Division, Texas–Indian wars, Tonkawa, United States, United States Army, Waco people, Wichita people.

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See also

1820s conflicts

1830s conflicts

1850s conflicts

1860s conflicts

1870s conflicts

Comanche history

Military history of Texas

Wars fought in Texas

References