An early English woodcut depicting Indian raids on white settlements
Foreshadowing fierce contacts
that would plague settlers in Texas throughout the 19th century,
the Comanche initiate their first raid on a white settlement in
Texas. Meanwhile, far to the north and east, George Rogers
Clark, the older brother of William Clark, the explorer, raids
Shawnees north of the Ohio River. Click here for more
Shawnee warriors in the Ohio Valley were fierce foes.