Battle of Pease River

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Battle of Pease River/Pease River Massacre
Part of the American Indian Wars
Date December 19, 1860 Location Near the Pease River (now Foard County, Texas, United States) 34°4′11.30″N 99°35′42.32″W / 34.0698056°N 99.5950889°W / 34.0698056; -99.5950889 (Pease River Battlefield) Result Noconi camp massacred; recovery of Naduah, or Cynthia Ann Parker (Na'ura)
Belligerents
Texas Rangers, Militia	Comanche Noconi Band
Commanders and leaders
Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross	Peta Nocona* [note 1](disputed)
Strength
60 men	Unknown at least 20 in the band, including 16 unarmed Comanche women and 2 children
Casualties and losses
3 reported.	All but three killed; Naduah, or Cynthia Ann Parker, was captured with her infant daughter, Topʉsana (Prairie Flower)
Site of the Pease River Massacre class=notpageimage| Location within Texas

The Battle of Pease River, also known as the Pease River Massacre^[1] or the Pease River fight,^[2] occurred on December 19, 1860, near the present-day town of Margaret, Texas in Foard County, Texas, United States. The town is located between Crowell and Vernon within sight of the Medicine Mounds just outside present-day Quanah, Texas.

A monument marks the site where a group of Comanche Indians (mostly women and children) were massacred^[2][3][4][5] by a detachment of Texas Rangers and militia under Ranger Captain "Sul" Ross. The Indian camp was attacked as retaliation against recent Comanche attacks on settlers.

This raid is primarily remembered as the place where Cynthia Ann Parker was recovered after she had been reported as missing since the Fort Parker massacre, 24 years earlier.

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