Welcome to Leapon Apocalypse. Episode 12, El Dia de los Gritos.

I'm Brandon Seale.

On October 1st, 1855, rumors reached Captains Juan and Ramon Castro at the old Lipon

refuge of El Remolino in northern Coahuila that a hundred or so armed Texans had crossed the Rio Grande

of Eagle Pass and were headed their way.

Ramon and Juan Castro and their bands of Lipanes hadn't wanted necessarily to be living in

Mexico in 1855, but they were lucky to even have it as an option.

Lucky compared to other Texas natives, who had nowhere else to flee from Texas' increasingly aggressive campaigns against Texas Indians,

supported now by the U.S. Army.

It was doubly disappointing for the Lippanes because they'd been critical allies for the short-lived Republic of Texas,

but also because they had tried

to assist the recent U.S. invasion of Mexico in 1846. Just prior to the invasion, Mexican officials

had tried to forcibly conscript Mexican Lipanez into their army, once again alienating

these potential allies against Anglo-American expansion.

And so instead, Lipanes became a thorn in the side of northern Mexico for the next two violent years,

raiding Mexican ranches and selling the booty to delighted Texas buyers.

But that didn't suddenly turn the Texans into allies either.

There was this odd scene in the middle of the Mexican-American War on May 13, 1847,

where U.S., Texan, and Mexican forces set aside their differences for just a few days to go out after a 65-man-Lipan ranging party deep in Chihuahua.

The joint force defeated the Lipponis, severed the Lippon Medicineanging Party deep in Chihuahua. The joint force defeated the Lippines, severed the

Lippon Medicine Man's head, boiled the skull, and carried it back to the U.S. as a trophy.

The Mexican and American soldiers celebrated with a great banquet that night.

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