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Second Battle of Adobe Walls | |||||||
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Part of the Red River War | |||||||
Adobe Walls battlefield looking southeast from Billy Dixon's grave. | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United States |
Comanche Cheyenne Kiowa | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
N/A |
Isa-tai (Quahadi Comanche) Quanah Parker (Quahadi Comanche) Kobay-oburra (Quahadi Comanche) Piarʉ Ekarʉhkapʉ (Nokoni Comanche) Mow-way (Kotsoteka Comanche) Tabananika (Yamparika Comanche) Isa-rosa (Yamparika Comanche) Hitetetsi aka Tuwikaa-tiesuat (Yamparika Comanche) Guipago (Kiowa) Satanta (Kiowa) Tsen-tainte (Kiowa) Zepko-ete (Kiowa) Little Robe (Cheyenne) White Shield (Cheyenne)[1]: 208 | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
28 hunters and tradesmen | ~700 warriors[1]: 208 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
4 killed, unknown wounded | estimated 30 killed, unknown wounded. 15 bodies lay too close to the walls to be recovered + 1 killed long range | ||||||
The Second Battle of Adobe Walls was fought on June 27, 1874, between Comanche forces and a group of 28 Texan bison hunters defending the settlement of Adobe Walls, in what is now Hutchinson County, Texas. "Adobe Walls was scarcely more than a lone island in the vast sea of the Great Plains, a solitary refuge uncharted and practically unknown."[1]: 225