Texas launched a genocidal war against the Comanches. The first non-Indians to bring the war to Comanchería since Juan Bautista de Anza’s invasion in 1779, Lamar’s soldiers hunted down Comanche bands, often indiscriminately killing men, women, and children. Comanches retaliated by razing farms, slaughtering cattle, seizing captives, and killing settlers and mutilating their bodies.
