Ranald MacKenzie was the real deal. A major factor in his breaking the Comanche’s will to fight was the capture of their women and children. It worked for John Moore when he hit the Comanches, 1840, on the Colorado. Worked for Custer 1868 (??) on the Washita, and Custer was probably intending to take captive at the Little Bighorn. It sure lessened the risk of counterattack on the way home.
Yep. MacKenzie was a bad ass.
I didn’t realize he was stationed at Fort Concho, with the Buffalo Soldiers, at the time of the Red River War & The Battle of Palo Duro Canyon. That would be a brutal horseback ride.
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