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Lipan Indians,
A branch of the Athabascas.
For a long time they roamed from the banks of the Rio Grande and the Chihuahua to the land of the Comanches.
They made war on the Spanish frontiers and desolated mission stations.
Having learned many Spanish words and advanced somewhat in civilization, they became allies of Mexican partisans in the revolutions in that country; and when Texas became an independent state the Lipans roamed over it from Austin to Corpus Christi, but plundered only the Mexicans, generally.
At the close of the war between Mexico and the United States (1848) they began war in Texas, and for a while they desolated the frontier settlements.
The remnant has since retired to Mexico.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Livingston , Edward 1764 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Logan , Benjamin 1752 -1802 (search)
Logan, Benjamin 1752-1802
Pioneer; born in Augusta county, Va., about 1752; removed to the banks of the Holston when twenty-one years old, and bought a farm and married.
He became a sergeant in Bouquet's expedition, and in 1774 was in Dunmore's expedition.
Removing to Kentucky in 1775, in 1776 he took his family to Logan's Fort, near Harrodsburg.
There he was attacked by a large force of Indians, but they were repulsed.
He was second in command of an expedition against the Indians at Chillicothe, under Colonel Bowman, in July, 1779.
In 1788 he conducted an expedition against the Northwestern tribes, burning their villages and destroying their crops.
In 1792 he was a member of the convention that framed the first constitution for Kentucky.
He died in Shelby county, Ky., Dec. 11, 1802.
Longwoods, battle of
Captain Holmes, of the 24th United States Infantry, proceeded, Feb. 27, 1814, with a party of about 160 rangers and mounted men against some of the British posts in Upper Canada.
At Longwoods, on the Thames, he had a very sharp battle, on March 4, with the British, who, after an hour of hard fighting, ordered a retreat.
Their loss was sixty-five killed and wounded, besides Indians.
The loss of the Americans was seven men.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), McArthur , Duncan 1772 - (search)