Battle of Pease River

Quanah Parker sitting next to a portrait of his mother, Cynthia Ann

(Wikipedia) The Battle of Pease River occurred on December 18, 1860, near the present-day town of Margaret, Texas in Foard County, Texas, United States. The town is located between Crowell and Vernon within sight of the Medicine Mounds just outside present-day Quanah, Texas.
A monument on that spot marks the site of the battle between a group of Comanche Indians (mostly women and children) and a detachment of Texas Rangers and militia under Ranger Captain "Sul" Ross. The Indian camp was attacked as retaliation against recent Comanche attacks on white settlers.
This raid is primarily remembered as the place where Cynthia Ann Parker was recovered from the Comanche who had captured her twenty-four years earlier. Continued