Comanche Wars

Comanche Wars
Part of the Texas–Indian wars
A map showing the Comanche lands (Comancheria) during the 1800s.
Date 1836 – 1875 Location Texas Result Texan and United States Victory
Belligerents
Spain  Mexico  Republic of Texas  United States	Comanches
Texas Comanche wars 1836 – 1875

For more than 150 years, mounted Comanche warriors were “the Lords of the Southern Plains,” The Comanche lived in a large area known as Comancheria, and they raided over an area that stretched across the Southern Plains. They shared Comancheria with the Wichita, Kiowa, and Kiowa Apache and, after 1840, the southern Cheyenne and Arapaho.

The Comanche Wars began in 1706 with raids by Comanche on Spanish colonies in New Spain and continued until the last bands of Comanche surrendered to the United States in 1875, although a few Comanche warriors continued to fight in conflicts such as the Buffalo Hunters' War in 1876 and 1877.

Comanche power peaked in the 1840s when they conducted large scale raids hundreds of miles deep into Mexico proper while also warring against the Anglo-Americans and Tejanos living in Independent Texas. Their power declined as a result of epidemics of cholera and smallpox, and by the expanding population of the United States.

Iron Jacket was a Comanche Chief and Medicine man. The name “Iron Jacket” came from his tendency to wear a coat of mail into battle. Iron Jacket took part in Antelope Hills Expedition where he was ultimately killed in the battle of Little Robe Creek. Iron Jacket was the father of Peta Nocona who later became a chief himself.

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