Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Battle of Pease River is the Texas settler nomer for the massacre of a Nocomi hunting camp which 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 alleged battle between the Comanche Indians under Peta Nocona and a detachment of Texas Rangers and militia under Ranger Captain \"Sul\" Ross. The battle was allegedly fought to protect the lives and property of white settlers in the area who had encroached on land historically belonging to the Comanches. This slaughter of just under 20 Comanche people gradually acquired an unwarranted grandiosity as a major Texan historical event primarily due to the self-promotion by Sul Ross who claimed that \"the great Comanche confederacy was forever broken, the blow was decisive, their illustrious chief slept with his fathers and with him were most of his doughty warriors.\"This raid is primarily remembered as the place where Cynthia Ann Parker was recaptured from the Comanche she had lived with for 24 years."@en }
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- Battle_of_Pease_River abstract "The Battle of Pease River is the Texas settler nomer for the massacre of a Nocomi hunting camp which 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 alleged battle between the Comanche Indians under Peta Nocona and a detachment of Texas Rangers and militia under Ranger Captain \"Sul\" Ross. The battle was allegedly fought to protect the lives and property of white settlers in the area who had encroached on land historically belonging to the Comanches. This slaughter of just under 20 Comanche people gradually acquired an unwarranted grandiosity as a major Texan historical event primarily due to the self-promotion by Sul Ross who claimed that \"the great Comanche confederacy was forever broken, the blow was decisive, their illustrious chief slept with his fathers and with him were most of his doughty warriors.\"This raid is primarily remembered as the place where Cynthia Ann Parker was recaptured from the Comanche she had lived with for 24 years.".