The Great Comanche Raid of 1840. On August 4, 1840, hundreds of Comanche warriors and their families poured out of the Texas hill country to begin a raid that would carry them down the Guadalupe valley to the Gulf Coast. The raiders crossed the Old San Antonio Road (earlier known as El Camino Real) here at Plum Creek. The raid was in retaliation for the ambush of a Comanche peace delegation by Texan soldiers at the Council House in San Antonio the previous March. When the Comanche raiders reached the settlement of Linnville at the mouth of the Guadalupe on August 8, they sacked the town and retreated - pursued now by Texan volunteers, who defeated them in the battle of Plum Creek near Lockhart on August 12. Following another confrontation in October between Indians and militia on the upper Colorado River in west Texas, large-scale Indian raids in central Texas came to an end.
