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3 unusual facts about Indian wars


Anglo-Indian Wars

The Anglo-Indian Wars were the several wars fought in India between the various Indian states and empires and the British East India Company and British India.

Texas–Indian wars

The remaining period of the Republic of Texas under President Anson Jones, saw the government follow Houston's policies, with the exception that Jones, like most Texas politicians, did not wish to put a boundary on the Comancheria, and thus he supported those in the Legislature who derailed that provision of the Treaty.

On July 15 and 16 of 1839, a combined Militia force under General K.H. Douglass, Ed Burleson, Albert Sidney Johnson and David G. Burnet attacked the Cherokees, Delaware, and Shawnee under Cherokee Chief Bowles at the Battle of the Neches.


Arthur Japin

His 2007 novel De overgave, to be translated as Someone Found, takes the subject of the 19th-century Texas Indian wars, dramatizing the story of the Fort Parker Massacre of 1836, in which a white girl, Cynthia Ann Parker, was taken as a Comanche hostage, later becoming the mother of the famous Comanche chief Quanah Parker.

Battle of the Neches

The Battle of the Neches, the main engagement of the Cherokee War of 1838–1839 (part of the Texas-Indian Wars), took place on the 15th and 16 July in 1839 in what is now the Redland community (between Tyler and Ben Wheeler, Texas).

Benjamin Franklin Davis

Benjamin Franklin "Grimes" Davis (1832 – June 9, 1863) was an American military officer who served in Indian wars, and then led Union cavalry in the American Civil War before dying in combat.

Company of Select Marksmen

Captain Alexander Fraser of the 34th Regiment, a veteran of the French and Indian War, commanded what became known as the Company of Select Marksmen during the Burgoyne campaign in 1777.

Overton, Texas

Robert Lee Howze graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1888 and was a Major General who received the Medal of Honor during the Indian Wars.

San Gabriel, Texas

San Gabriel is located about 30 miles downstream from the site of the Battle of the San Gabriels in 1839, a battle fought during the Texas-Indian Wars that followed the Texas Republic's successful Revolution after the suspension of the 1824 Constitution of the United States of Mexico in favor of a centralist oriented constitution that led to the dictatorship of President Antonio López de Santa Anna.


see also

Army on the Frontier

Some of the more notable Indian wars were: the Northwest Indians, 1790–95 and 1811–13; Seminole Wars in Florida, 1817–18, 1835–42 and 1856; Black Hawk War, 1832; Sioux War, 1862–1867; War of the Plains Indians, 1863–69; Sioux and Cheyenne War of 1876-79; and Apache Wars, 1861-90.

Douglas D. Scott

Scott has led similar work at other Indian Wars battlefields, including Fort Washita and the site of the Sand Creek Massacre.

John O'Sullivan

John Francis O'Sullivan (1850–1907), Irish-American awarded the Medal of Honor during the Indian Wars

San Antonio National Cemetery

Corporal Henry A. McMasters, Medal of Honor recipient for action in the Indian Wars.

Private Solon D. Neal, Medal of Honor recipient for action in the Indian Wars.

Thom Hatch

Thom Hatch is an award-winning, popular American author and novelist who specializes in the history of the American West, the American Civil War, and the Plains Indian Wars.

Warbonnet

See also: Battle of Warbonnet Creek for Indian wars encounter in 1876 involving Buffalo Bill Cody.