The Council House Fight: Blood In The Streets Of San Antonio, TX

This gets overlooked the u.s. government allowed the Comanche to raid the Texans as punishment for fighting against the union

Betrayal bloodbath and Texas would pay for it

This comments section is so racist man

The Comanche were particularly brutal and savage. There are several narratives about them across my 6 generations of family in Texas. (If these nomadic native pirates had really understood 19th century Anglo Texan culture, they might have moved on towards the desert southwest.) Great vid, thanks for posting. God Bless Texas!!

Basically all throughout history women got *aped and men where tortured lol score one for humanity amiright???

Best channel about the old west. Greetings from Deutschland.

They deserved every bit of what they got.

What happens when you don't give good-faith at the start of negotiations

I don't cry for the American Indians ever. They were hyper-violent towards other tribes as well, and it went on for millennia before Europeans arrived. Torture, rape and murder were the rule and not the exception with the North American tribes. They weren't peaceful, "noble" savages at all.

Damn, so sad

Having read many narratives by explorers and others who were among the first to make contact with the indigenous tribes of North America, I learned that women were not treated at all well. They were essentially slaves to the men and did every menial chore in camp and were continuously raped without regard. When on the move, women, children and dogs were treated as pack animals. Men would sometimes wrestle over who would rape what girl, and the concept of "romantic love" did not exist. Just envy, jealousy, and craven violent lust. After victorious battles against other tribes or whites, the children too small to be immediately useful as slave labour were killed outright, unless the ghastly manner of murdering them could elicit shock and horror from other captives awaiting their fate, much to the delight of the native women. Men were often turned over, trussed, to the women of the tribe who took great delight inflicting pain while drawing out the torture that eventually killed them. Maybe they (rightly) took out their hatred of men (for the way they were treated) on their bound captives.
All that said, it is possible that the Comanche who dragged tortured and mutilated 16 year old Matilda Lockhart into town and demanding concessions for her release had no idea the white menfolk would regard Matilda with any more compassion than they treated their own girls and women. Just a little context to keep in mind, when you read such understatements as "when a hostage surrender did not go according to plan..."

Why would they kill the chiefs horses?

Dammmn! That should be the beginning of a Western about The Great Raid of 1840

Good riddance to the Comanche. Savage vile and cruel people.

Good riddance to the Comanche. Savage vile and cruel people.

I feel bad for the tribes to go from having a lot of land and living their lives to fighting and losing their lives to turning into savages just to seek revenge on those who lives what once was theirs

Holy Hell, that took a wild turn near the end 🤯

Nothing like a good old Texas barbecue! Roasted settlers anybody?

Be aware of the history you listening from.

"Of the 16 hostages the Texians were determined to recover, 13 were tortured to death as soon as the news of the Council House Fight reached the outraged Comanches. The captives, including Matilda Lockhart's six-year-old sister, suffered slow roasting among other tortures."
You can use all the cultural relativism of the world, but people that roast to death innocent children are nothing but degenerate scum.

I know no monotheist belong to these lands so hurry up and go to heaven, your bad for the earth reproduced lazy folk who just want to enslave more folk

monotheist are bad for the environment you cant live off the land because you monothesit

monotheist are lazy and enslave because they are lazy

monotheist breeds lazy people

you don't deserve to speak about our people ever, go romanticize and exploit other people

Imagine the torment of that innocent girl. She died a couple years later. A release I expect.

Born and raised in San Antonio. Remember the Alamo!

Whatever you want to say about the Europeans or "colonizers" the natives were worse in every capacity — they laughed while skinning children alive then slowly roasting them over a fire as they cried in transcendent agony... if you aren't glad to see such a people wiped from existence, then you're either a psychopath, a sadist, or both.

Great video. Which comes next in this series?

The stories of the comanche getting their just desserts are the best

These men were really Savages

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How can we know that the white captives were 'roasted alive'? Did this really happen, or was this story merely rumour and disinformation to further an agenda?

What a great channel, I'm reading Empire of the Summer Moon right now and I love being able to come on here after finishing a chapter to soak in a more visual representation of these moments in time.

Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.

A good book to read is INDIAN DEPREDATIONS IN TEXAS by JM Wilbarger---Read that...then you can make a informed comment if you want..........

This is history "too real" to be taught in school. 😮 If it had, I would've paid attention. 👍

The way we treated the Indians was shameful. Listening to these stories, I wonder who was the animal? The Indians were protecting their home and the white man was the invader. I guess all is fair in war, and this was war. Thank you 💛 for this.

I just found this channel. Im from Texas and I love history. Your a great story teller keep it up! Have you ever thought about longer videos. I like em but I have to run a playlist 😆. Hour long videos would be awesome you have interesting content

Your voice needs to be much louder. The music is not necessary. I cant even hear it in the shower.

So much violence, suffering and pain for everyone on the Texas frontier. Hard living to be sure.

It's amazing how history can be changed over time. Matilda Lockhart did not have a sister that was taken with her and was she killed by the Indians. She was not from San Antonio but from Gonzales County close to present day Cuero Texas. 4 Putman children were taken that day. My Great Grandfather 5 Mitchel Putman was at the Council house fight. The Indians offered to bring in all the captured children. They only produced three children. Matilda. a Mexican boy and one Negro boy. The Indians hide bows and arrows under their buckskin clothes according to my Great Grandfather 5 Putman. They pulled out their bows and arrows and began to shoot them into they Texans as the fight broke out. There were many eye witness accounts that were written down on that day. My Great Grandfather rode from Gonzales to San Antonio because the Indians promised to release all captives. My Grandfather 5 said he grabbed his Kentucky long rifle and bowie knife jumped on his horse and rode with hope. He told how he hoped he would see his children again but knew the Indians were liars. After seeing Matilda in her condition he worried that his oldest daughter Roda who was 14 years old could have met with the same fate. Matilda told the Texans that the Indians were no telling the truth about not having any more captive which is why the Texans told the Chief that they would be held until the children were returned. That's when the Chief let out a war cry and the fight began. Old Paint Caldwell was outside when the fight broke out and was unarmed when an Indian shot him in the leg. He grabbed the rifle away from the Indian and beat him to death with it. he then put his back against the wall of the Council House and fought off Indians with the rifle and rocks. Old Paint lived to fight another day. Fact: The Indians were armed with knifes, bows and arrows as well as some rifles. They offered the treaty and they offered to return all the captives. Fact: Matilda had no sister that was taker or killed by Indians.

This comment section is full of white supremacists

FAFO

I'm from Waco and my grandmother's from both sides were full Kickapoo. Thank you so much for all the hard work and amazing stories!

The music in the "background" is very aggravating.

Thank you!

How about the Battle of Bandera Pass?

Hello, can you please redo this video thank you!

Thanks for posting I never have heard how detailed and nasty this story really was before.