|
Raiding Comanches soundly defeated at Plum Creek
On this day in 1840, Gen. Felix Huston, Col. Edward Burleson, and others, including Ben McCulloch, fought a running battle with a large party of Comanche Indians. The battle of Plum Creek occurred as a result of the Council House Fight, in which a number of Comanche leaders were killed. Chief Buffalo Hump led a retaliatory attack down the Guadalupe valley east and south of Gonzales. The band numbered perhaps as many as 1,000, including the families of the warriors, who followed to make camps and seize plunder. The Comanches swept down the valley, plundering, stealing horses, and killing settlers, and sacked the town of Linnville. The Texans' volunteer army caught up with the Indians on Plum Creek, near present-day Lockhart, on August 11 and soundly defeated them the next day.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- BURLESON, EDWARD
- COMANCHE INDIANS
- LINNVILLE RAID OF 1840
- PLUM CREEK, BATTLE OF
- COUNCIL HOUSE FIGHT
- BUFFALO HUMP
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
- Eccentric ornithologist and editor dies in San Antonio (1985)
- Giant sinkhole appears at Boling Dome (1983)
|
