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Comanche is a city located in Comanche County in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 4,211 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] It is the county seat of Comanche County.
Comanche County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in Central Texas. As of the 2020 census , its population was 13,594. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The county seat is Comanche . [ 3 ]
The Comanche / k ə ˈ m æ n tʃ i / or Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Comanche: Nʉmʉnʉʉ, "the people" [4]) is a Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States. Comanche people today belong to the federally recognized Comanche Nation, headquartered in Lawton, Oklahoma. [1] The Comanche language is a Numic language of the Uto ...
Comanche history for the eighteenth century falls into three broad and distinct categories: (1) the Comanche and their relationship with the Spanish, Puebloans, Ute, and Apache peoples of New Mexico; (2) The Comanche and their relationship with the Spanish, Apache, Wichita, and other peoples of Texas; and, (3) The Comanche and their relationship with the French and the Indian tribes of ...
The Great Raid of 1840 was the largest raid Native Americans ever mounted on white cities in what is now the United States. [3] It followed the Council House Fight, in which Republic of Texas officials attempted to capture and take prisoner 33 Comanche chiefs and their wives, who had earlier promised to deliver 13 white captives they had kidnapped. [4]
Santa Anna was a Comanche war chief who advocated for armed resistance against the Texas settlers, and became influential after the Council House Fight of 1840 in San Antonio. Santa Anna joined forces with Buffalo Hump and most likely took part in the Battle of Plum Creek and the Great Raid of 1840 .
Comanche Springs was an aquifer of six artesian springs geographically located between the Edwards Plateau and the Trans-Pecos regions of West Texas. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The military fortification Camp Stockton was built around the springs, eventually growing become the city of Fort Stockton .
Texas historical marker in Crowell, Texas. The Fort Parker massacre, also known as the Fort Parker raid, was an event in which a group of Texian colonists were killed in an attack by a contingent of Comanche, Kiowa, Caddo, and Wichita raiders at Fort Parker on May 19, 1836.