Battle of the Neches

Battle of the Neches
Part of the Texas-Indian Wars
DateJuly 15 & 16, 1839
Location
West of modern Tyler, Texas
Result Texan Victory
Belligerents
Republic of Texas
Tonkawa Indians[1]
Cherokee
Delaware
Commanders and leaders
Gen. Kelsey Douglass
Gen. Thomas Rusk
Col. Edward Burleson
Chief Plácido
The Bowl 
Big Mush 
Strength
Approx. 500 600–700
Casualties and losses
8 killed
29 wounded,
incl. Vice President Burnet
More than 100 killed

The Battle of the Neches, the main engagement of the Cherokee War of 1838–1839 (part of the Texas–Indian Wars), took place on 15–16 July in 1839 in what is now the Redland community (between Tyler and Ben Wheeler, Texas). It resulted from the Córdova Rebellion and Texas President Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar's determination to remove the Cherokee people from Texas. Many Cherokee had migrated there from the American Southeast to avoid being forced to Indian Territory.