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re: The Spanish were wrecking shop in the New World...then they met the Comanche
Posted on 8/4/21 at 8:34 pm to VirgilCaine
Posted on 8/4/21 at 8:34 pm to VirgilCaine
Well, Jack Hays was a surveyor... don't think many more were.
Rangers dated back to Austin's colony and prior to that, a tradition in the British Isles. Greatx3 grandfather was a Texas ranger prior to and during the Mexican War and he came to Texas as a kid from Alsace. Many more were just a little more reputable than outlaws... but good on a horse and with a gun.
And it took decades to finally defeat the Comanches (with little thanks to the US government during most of that timeframe).
Rangers dated back to Austin's colony and prior to that, a tradition in the British Isles. Greatx3 grandfather was a Texas ranger prior to and during the Mexican War and he came to Texas as a kid from Alsace. Many more were just a little more reputable than outlaws... but good on a horse and with a gun.
And it took decades to finally defeat the Comanches (with little thanks to the US government during most of that timeframe).
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Posted on 8/4/21 at 8:35 pm to rooster108bm
The Apache says frick you.
—Comanches were much badder than the Apaches. Comanches slaughtered other tribes in Texas
—Comanches were much badder than the Apaches. Comanches slaughtered other tribes in Texas
This post was edited on 8/4/21 at 8:37 pm
Posted on 8/4/21 at 8:36 pm to weagle99
1,3,2
Posted on 8/4/21 at 8:37 pm to tigerinthebueche
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Nothing a bottle of corn liquor and some contaminated blankets couldn’t handle.
Or Old Hickory on a slow Tuesday afternoon. Dude truly loved stacking bodies
Posted on 8/4/21 at 8:38 pm to SuperSaint
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SuperSaint
Moccasins were like the original crocs
Posted on 8/4/21 at 8:38 pm to SWCBonfire
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Jack Hays
I'm guessing he was the one they called "Devil" Jack Hays. Absolutely no mercy in a fight.
Posted on 8/4/21 at 8:39 pm to Darth_Vader
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That’s pretty much what always happens when one side outnumbers the other by better than 3 to 1
And you have Custer who was a screw up.
Posted on 8/4/21 at 8:39 pm to weagle99
The Comanche stopped the Spaniards from moving north from Florida to Canada?
Posted on 8/4/21 at 8:43 pm to weagle99
The Comanche and the Apache we not to be fricked with...
Posted on 8/4/21 at 8:43 pm to tigerinthebueche
quote:Only one legit account of this being tried. . .and there is no evidence that it even worked.
some contaminated blankets
The Injuns "gifted" the blankets never had any smallpox outbreak. The fort that tried the "gift" was GUTTED by smallpox. . .and was supposedly trying the tactic to get revenge for a brutal massacre the Injuns had perpetrated.
Just an FYI
Posted on 8/4/21 at 8:44 pm to TidenUP
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I'm guessing he was the one they called "Devil" Jack Hays. Absolutely no mercy in a fight.
Yes. Half of the plot line of any western you've ever seen was based on his life. I wish someone would make a miniseries on his life.
Posted on 8/4/21 at 8:45 pm to SWCBonfire
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SWCBonfire
Great info, figured a true Texan would clean up my belligerent Cracker Barrel-stylized history. Texas forever.
Posted on 8/4/21 at 8:46 pm to HoboDickCheese
Where does the spermlust come from?
Posted on 8/4/21 at 8:47 pm to weagle99
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he took as many women as he wanted.
Only those that consented though, right?
Posted on 8/4/21 at 8:49 pm to weagle99
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Some of you in Texas have heard of a ‘Comanche Moon’? It was when they would raid and wipe people out.
Apparently others had a similar, yet substantially stronger, motto.
Posted on 8/4/21 at 8:49 pm to SWCBonfire
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Yes. Half of the plot line of any western you've ever seen was based on his life. I wish someone would make a miniseries on his life.
I agree. That guy was a total badass and played for keeps.
Posted on 8/4/21 at 8:55 pm to Roaad
US military wasn't involved until after Texas became a state. Texas Rangers with single shot long rifles, double barrel shotguns, and surplus Colt Patterson revolvers from the Texian Navy were the most effective opposition from 1836 until McKenzie the US cavalry finally tracked the Comanche to Palo Duro and deprived them of their horses.
Posted on 8/4/21 at 8:58 pm to SWCBonfire
quote:Almost everyone Houston led were US military men
US military wasn't involved until after Texas became a state.
It wasn't officially the US military. . .but it was totally the US military
Posted on 8/4/21 at 9:00 pm to Jack Daniel
quote:it’s funny bc I’m an Aggie, have a uv. No gay here though baw
Where does the spermlust come from?
Posted on 8/4/21 at 9:00 pm to OysterPoBoy
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quote:
he took as many women as he wanted.
Only those that consented though, right?
Every woman ever abducted by Comanches was brutally raped at a minimum.
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