The Comanche have managed to maintain their…

1852 CE to 1863 CE

The Comanche have managed to maintain their independence and increase their territory, but by the mid-nineteenth century, they face annihilation because of a wave of epidemics due to Eurasian diseases to which they have no immunity, such as smallpox and measles.

Outbreaks of smallpox (1817, 1848) and cholera (1849) take a major toll on the Comanche, whose population will drop from an estimated twenty thousand in mid-century to just a few thousand by the 1870s.

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