Anonymous ID: 8067b0 Jan. 31, 2024, 5:28 a.m. No.20334713   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4732

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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. It followed the Council House Fight, in which Republic of Texas officials attempted to capture and take prisoner 33 Comanche chiefs who had come to negotiate a peace treaty, killing them together with two dozen of their family and followers. The Comanche tribe was supposed to have brought white hostages as their part of the negotiations but brought only one young woman (the 16-year-old Matilda Lockhart). Arguments and fighting then broke out among the Texans and Comanches. The Texas Officials were determined to force the Comanche to release all white captives among them. To avenge what the Comanche viewed as a bitter betrayal by the Texans, the Comanche war chief Buffalo Hump raised a huge war party of many of the bands of the Comanche, and raided deep into white-settled areas of Southeast Texas.

Anonymous ID: 8067b0 Jan. 31, 2024, 5:34 a.m. No.20334732   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>20334713

For that entire day the Comanches plundered and burned buildings, draping themselves grandly in top hats and stolen linens. They tied feather beds and bolts of cloth to their horses, and dragged them. They herded large numbers of cattle into pens and slaughtered them. One outraged citizen, Judge John Hays, grabbed a gun and waded ashore through the shallow water, and roared at the bemused warriors, but the Indians chose to spare him, believing him mad. He later found that he had waded ashore to face nearly a thousand Indians with an unloaded pistol.

 

The war party burned one city to the ground. Their total plunder included over 3,000 horses and mules as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars of other items ranging from silver to cloth and mirrors. The sheer volume of loot slowed them down and made them vulnerable to attack from a militia that otherwise would have never caught them. The militia concentrated on seizing and dividing the recovered silver bullion and other plunder rather than pursue the raiding party.