Battle of Plum Creek

Plum Creek Battlefield
Battle of Plum Creek
	Part of the Texas–Indian wars
Date	August 12, 1840
Location	Lockhart, Texas29°53′2.1186″N 97°40′4.67″W / 29.883921833°N 97.6679639°W
Result	Inconclusive
Belligerents
Republic of Texas; Tonkawa	Comanche
Commanders and leaders
Mathew Caldwell ; Edward Burleson ; Chief Placido ; Ben McCulloch ; Felix Huston	Buffalo Hump, but effective control of the war party had broken down
Strength
Approximately 200	Estimates range from 400 to 1000.
Casualties and losses
One killed, seven wounded	Unknown; 12 bodies recovered, Texans claimed 87 killed at Plum Creek
	Plum Creek Battlefield class=notpageimage\| Location within Texas

The Battle of Plum Creek was a clash between allied Tonkawa, militia, and Rangers of the Republic of Texas and a huge Comanche war party under Chief Buffalo Hump, which took place near Lockhart, Texas, on August 12, 1840, following the Great Raid of 1840 as the Comanche war party returned to west Texas.^[2]

^ Utley 2002, p. 39: "The Texans came out of the fight with one killed and seven wounded."
^ The Comanche Barrier to South Plains Settlement: A Century and a Half of Savage Resistance to the Advancing White Frontier. Arthur H. Clarke Co. 1933.