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Texas Indian Papers Volume 1, Letter from Henry W. Karnes to Albert Sidney Johnston, January 10, The Comanches believed that the Texans were eager to buy peace and the return of white captives. They considered captives legitimate spoils of war and were oblivious to the rage that the Texans felt over the torture and humiliation suffered by their loved ones. When the Comanches realized they were to be taken hostage by the Texans, a furious melee broke out.
To the Indians, the Council House Fight was a profound shock that proved the whites' treachery. Peace between the two peoples would prove impossible to find. In the past, Comanche armies had driven out the Apaches and the Mexicans. Now, Chief Buffalo Hump used the same strategy against the Texans. Buffalo Hump's huge raids on Gonzales and Linnville rocked the Texans as nothing had since Santa Anna's offensive four years earlier.
But the Comanches had misjudged the response. Scores of Texas militiamen and rangers set off in pursuit of the Indians. The battle at Plum Creek was a total victory for the Texans and a disaster for the Comanches. Follow This Case. This pertains a tragic event known as the Council House Fight where Comanche leaders and men women and children led by a peace chief Mukwahruh went to San Antonio in March of to make peace with the Texans.
What ensued was a blood bath where men women and children were shot down because they did not want to be taken as prisoners. To some of us this seems a case of Texans glutting their vengeance for past battles with the Comanche. The event is said to have hardened Comanche hostility to whites in Texas. From the time of the first white settlements in Texas Comanche warriors and American frontiersmen had skirmished. In the Penatekas, driven by the fear of Cheyenne and Arapaho attacks along the northern frontier of Comanche territory, the losses suffered in several smallpox epidemics, and the successes of Texas Rangers against them, sought to make peace with Texas.
When Comanche peace representatives arrived at San Antonio in January , commissioners of the Texas government demanded the return of all captives held by the Penatekas.
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