Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Iron Jacket (Pohebits-quasho, Po-hebitsquash, Pro-he-bits-quash-a, Po-bish-e-quasho in Comanche) (born c. late 1780s or early 1790s – dead 1858) was a Native American War Chief and Chief of the Comanche Indians.Pohebits-quasho ("Iron Jacket") was a Comanche chieftain and medicine man whom the Comanche believed had the power to blow bullets aside with his breath. His name probably resulted from his habit of wearing a Spanish coat of mail into battle, which protected him from most light weapons fire.On May 12, 1858, the jacket (probably inherited from his ancestors) failed to protect him, and he was killed on the bank of the South Canadian River in the Battle of Little Robe Creek where his band of Quahadi Comanches fought a combined force of Texas Rangers and Brazos Reservation Indians led by John S. Ford, Sul Ross, later youngest Confederate General, and Governor of Texas, and Placido, the Tonkawa chief."@en }
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- Iron_Jacket abstract "Iron Jacket (Pohebits-quasho, Po-hebitsquash, Pro-he-bits-quash-a, Po-bish-e-quasho in Comanche) (born c. late 1780s or early 1790s – dead 1858) was a Native American War Chief and Chief of the Comanche Indians.Pohebits-quasho ("Iron Jacket") was a Comanche chieftain and medicine man whom the Comanche believed had the power to blow bullets aside with his breath. His name probably resulted from his habit of wearing a Spanish coat of mail into battle, which protected him from most light weapons fire.On May 12, 1858, the jacket (probably inherited from his ancestors) failed to protect him, and he was killed on the bank of the South Canadian River in the Battle of Little Robe Creek where his band of Quahadi Comanches fought a combined force of Texas Rangers and Brazos Reservation Indians led by John S. Ford, Sul Ross, later youngest Confederate General, and Governor of Texas, and Placido, the Tonkawa chief.".