The Comanches arrive in San Antonio on…
March 1840 CE
The Comanches arrive in San Antonio on March 19.
Expecting a council of peace, the twelve chiefs have brought women and children as well as warriors.
They are dressed in finery with their faces painted.
The delegation hopes to negotiate a recognition of the Comancheria as the sovereign land of the Comanche.
One chief who does not attend is Buffalo Hump, the Comanche war chief who will lead the Great Raid of 1840 in retaliation for the killings to come.
The Comanche chiefs have brought to the meeting only one white captive, Matilda Lockhart, a sixteen-year-old girl who had been held prisoner for over a year and a half, as well as several Mexican children who had been captured separately.
Mukwooru refuses to deliver more captives on the grounds that they are held in the rancherías of other chiefs over whom he has no authority.
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