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Black plaque № 54497

Uhland, TX, United States

The Great Comanche Raid of 1840. On August 4, 1840, hundreds of Comanche warriors and their families poured out of the Texas hill country to begin a raid that would carry them down the Guadalupe valley to the Gulf Coast. The raiders crossed the Old San Antonio Road (earlier known as El Camino Real)

here at Plum Creek. The raid was in retaliation for the ambush of a Comanche peace delegation by Texan soldiers at the Council House in San Antonio the previous March. When the Comanche raiders reache

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