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The Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians during the 19th-century. Conflict between the Plains Indians and the Spanish began before other European and Anglo-American settlers were encouraged—first by Spain and then by the newly Independent Mexican government—to colonize ...
American Indian Wars. The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, [note 1] was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, and later on by the Confederate States of America, Republic of Texas, Mexico and the United States of America against various American Indian tribes in North America.
Part of the Texas–Indian Wars United States: Cheyenne Arapaho Comanche Kiowa: Medicine Lodge Treaty; Comanche surrender and relocation; Modoc War (1872–73) United States: Modoc: Red River War (1874–75) United States: Cheyenne Arapaho Comanche Kiowa: End of the Texas–Indian wars; Great Sioux War of 1876 (1876–77) Part of the Sioux Wars ...
ConflictCombatant 1Combatant 2Navajo Wars ( c. 1600–1866)Crown of Castile (c. 1600–1716) Spain ...Anglo-Powhatan Wars (1610–46)English colonistsPowhatan ConfederacyMassachusetts Bay Colony Plymouth Colony ...Beaver Wars (1642–98)Iroquois England Dutch RepublicHuron Erie Neutral Odawa Ojibwe ...Star of the West. Battle of Fort Sumter. President Lincoln's 75,000 volunteers. v. t. e. The Texas Revolution (October 2, 1835 – April 21, 1836) was a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos (Hispanic Texans) against the centralist government of Mexico in the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas.
Armed conflict between different tribes and later between Indians and European settlers continued until the late Nineteenth Century. Spanish, Mexican, Republic of Texas and U.S. militaries all established facilities to protect settlers and launched expeditions against various Indian tribes.
The Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians during the 19th-century.
The Buffalo Hunters' War, or the Staked Plains War, occurred in 1877. Approximately 170 Comanche warriors and their families led by Quohadi chief Black Horse or Tu-ukumah (unknown–ca. 1900) left the Indian Territory in December, 1876, for the Llano Estacado of Texas. In February, 1877, they, and their Apache allies, began attacking buffalo ...
