Buffalo Soldiers vs. Comanche Warriors : The Legend Of Pompey Factor

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In the spring of 1875, deep in South Texas, a small group of elite reconnaissance scouts working as part of the legendary Buffalo Soldiers are caught in a fight for their lives against a group of Comanche warriors who outnumber them 8 to 1.
These four men, 3 soldiers belonging to the elite Seminole-Negro Indian scouts made-up of former slaves and native tribal members who had moved south to Mexico to escape the horrors of American slavery. Their names are Private Isaac Payne, Sergeant John Ward, and Private Pompey Factor. In command is a veteran officer whom they all respect and admire, decorated Civil War veteran Lieutenant John Bullis.
As the hordes of Comanche sweep down upon them, the men brace themselves for the fight of their lives against an enemy they have fought for decades. By the end of the day, all of these American soldiers will go down as legends, with three Congressional Medals forever commemorating their deeds in the face of such dire circumstances. Their adversaries in the Comanche will, in turn, be one step close to their eventual downfall.
In the end, neither the Buffalo Soldiers nor the Native Tribes will see the just desserts of their hard fought efforts. Join History At The OK Corral for this circumspect account of one of the most seminal events in one of America’s most complex eras.
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@use5555 3 ай бұрын

I have never heard of Black Seminoles fighting Indians. This was a well-researched and exciting episode. Bring us more of the unusual things of western history. Great job

@Leo_Pard_A4 3 ай бұрын

I knew of the black Buffalo Soldiers because of the Bob Marley song.

@Roots_of_my_raising 2 ай бұрын

These men are the reason that so many places in West Texas bear the name "Seminole". Keep up the great content!

@duncanforbes-vu3xt 3 ай бұрын

Fantastic recognition of 3 unsung genuine heros. To be black and decorated to that level in those times, PHENOMENAL . Utmost respect, magnificently well earned.

@michaelthomson8065 3 ай бұрын

One of your best episodes.The Buffalo Soldiers had a distinguished military record,from the Texas plains,to the North plains,to Arizona during the final Apache wars.

@Powwowshorts 3 ай бұрын

Keep doing these stories, I appreciate hearing these tales from both prospectives. As khoiye-goo(Kiowa) I hope to hear more stories about some of our famous leaders and warriors like Satanta who I descend from. Ah-ho

@HikingForLoot 3 ай бұрын

i remember a story of a kiowa party making it all the way to the yucatán

@Powwowshorts 3 ай бұрын

@@HikingForLoot yes! our people have many oral stories of traveling vast distances. Stories of the white bear up north and the hairy men in trees down south.

@gfreeman9843 3 ай бұрын

@@Powwowshortswe would love to hear some of your tribal history.❤ I read about Kiowa many years ago,allied with the Commanche.. formidable indeed. Santana and Satank. Earlier history would be so interesting. ❤ If you want to share it?

@Powwowshorts 3 ай бұрын

@@gfreeman9843 well in short we come from the northern plains Kiowa and crow used to be one group, story I was told that our leaders fought over a slain elk. This disagreement caused Kiowa to go south and crow to stay north. From then Kiowa have lived nomadic life styles raiding and following the buffalo. In my direct line I descend from Tan-guadle(red feather headress) who was a great warrior who died during the red river wars around the late 1800s. He would be my 5th great grandfather(kohn aydle)

@gfreeman9843 3 ай бұрын

@@Powwowshorts thank you so much.greetings from N.S.W. Australia. That was so interesting.

@RadioMan666 3 ай бұрын

Nothing but RESPECT for these Scouts and the Buffalo Soldiers! 👍👍

@matthow9131 3 ай бұрын

Those Comanche were scary hombres, love this channel always consistent quality.

@Red22762 2 ай бұрын

This should be a movie...bravery and guts that is almost superhuman!!!!!!!!!!!

@BigErnMcCracken777 3 ай бұрын

Incredible bravery in the face of death. Tragic how Mr Factors life ended and truly sickening how the government just forgot about him.

@frakismaximus3052 3 ай бұрын

What a story! Those men had incredible backbone... very unfortunate outcomes nonetheless 😢

@BestPathUSA 3 ай бұрын

This was truly an excellent piece. Bravo. You have captured well the strange injustice experienced by Blacks, Native Americans, and Black Native Americans in the US military.

@user-ic3pj6og3y 2 ай бұрын

The Comanches were true badass. It's so sad all lots of History has been lost in stories of their ancestors. Lots of the native language has been forgotten.😢

@walkerroadrevivalrevelatio565 3 ай бұрын

Awesome job Please don’t stop Always looking forward to your great story telling Thanks 😊

@WyomingTraveler 3 ай бұрын

Once again, another great story of courage and fortitude

@slowturtle6745 3 ай бұрын

This was a great episode. History I'm almost ashamed to admit I was unfamiliar with but everyone should know about. I can also sadly report that the governments treatment of it's veterans hasn't improved very much.

@HistoricallyRomantic 3 ай бұрын

Happy Friday. My dogs are barkin!

@JamesGroves-vr2xw 3 ай бұрын

Another amazing episode! Thank you, Sir🙏🏿🇺🇸

@bobsmoot2392 3 ай бұрын

Excellent, as always.

@robertrackuzius3722 3 ай бұрын

Love your videos. Thanks for the work that you do.

@-PanzerRabbit- 3 ай бұрын

Great job guys. Thank you

@dmeinhertzhagen8764 3 ай бұрын

I really appreciate your channel and your work. The voice is perfect.

@speakupriseup4549 3 ай бұрын

Well deserved MoH awards, incredible bravery.

@Music-lx1tf 3 ай бұрын

Great story.

@ludwigderzanker9767 3 ай бұрын

This is a precious little piece of history, well explored and present. Never heard about the carrier of the Black Seminoles in the context of the Tribes fighting in that details, thanks to you! Joe Hembus wrote in the Western Lexikon that the in Florida staying Seminoles declared actually peace to the US in 1974 while meeting. Hardy badasses the were! All the best from Northern Germany Ludwig.

@NigelDeForrest-Pearce-cv6ek 3 ай бұрын

Brilliant Telling of a Great Story!!!!

@tylermoulton7294 5 сағат бұрын

You have to keep covering anything and everything you all want. You all can take any cultures tales and make it available to us all in a riveting way

@user-te4kk2gy1o 3 ай бұрын

Best channel for the buck.

@jonmeek3879 3 ай бұрын

Great story

@krinklemcwrinkle4741 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for making these , I collect coins and it’s cool to hear stories from the years of past

@armyvet8279 3 ай бұрын

Never heard of any of these people except for Ranald McKenzie

@el_pescadore 3 ай бұрын

Gotta admit, I teared up hearing the shit they did to Pompey & fam. And I don’t cry. Medal of Freaking Honor and they can’t find his records? Why can’t the Hollywood Judios write a screenplay about real historical heroes like Pompey Factor instead of casting them as historically incorrect characters who were white? There’s a plethora of great stories to tell, but Hollywood wants hatred, animosity and division amongst the American People. If we ever got together America would be unstoppable.

@ravenfeader 3 ай бұрын

Narrative , message Division is the goal and it's an old goal in modern age with modern tools . Hollywood dirt bags who love it are backed by the divisive no surprise at all. People divided are weak and easy to lead as they always have been .

@cipherklosenuf9242 3 ай бұрын

What are Hollywood Judios?

@w4974 3 ай бұрын

Use one group to fight another, oldest trick in the book

@gerryconstant4914 3 ай бұрын

Good informing Historic program. I knew about the Trail of Tears since I was 5 visiting N Carolina & seeing the Eastern Cherokee play Unto These Hills. I also read about the Buffalo Soilders after the Civil War. I knew nothing about the Seminole Scouts. I'll subscribe now that I found your channel. The only time I've been to Brackettville is visiting the set of the John Wayne movie The Alamo which I believe in now closed to the public.

@awolpeace1781 3 ай бұрын

Real history, brava!

@adamstephenson7518 3 ай бұрын

Another great video 🤙

@EnduroDreaming 3 ай бұрын

More buffalo soldier stories

@johnwingate8799 3 ай бұрын

They eventually became park rangers.

@omartistry 24 күн бұрын

@@johnwingate8799They did serve in the in the Spanish American war, Philippine American war, both world wars and lastly the Korean War. A lot more stories can be told.

@user-qs7gx7rp7m 3 ай бұрын

Great Stuff !

@jbos5107 3 ай бұрын

I know that a movie can never tell the whole, true story. I'd like to recommend the film "Sergeant Rutledge" 1960, directed by John Ford. It stars the great Woody Strode as Top Sergeant Rutledge, a black Calvary soldier. It's a great movie about the Buffalo Soldiers. Jeffery Archer got star billing, but Woody Strode was the real star of the movie.

@slowturtle6745 3 ай бұрын

That's a great movie.

@donnasharpe3451 3 ай бұрын

His name was Jeffrey Hunter not Jeffrey Archer.

@jbos5107 3 ай бұрын

@@donnasharpe3451 You are so right. I don't know where I got Archer from. I'm old. It's still a great movie!

@wordword6039 3 ай бұрын

Dont stop doing these stories. These mens stories should be in every classroom in America.

@geneotrexler8246 3 ай бұрын

Good video 👍

@Smashhoke 3 ай бұрын

I worked at the OK corral as a blacksmith in the 90s. It was OK.

@TRoutdooradventures 3 ай бұрын

I was on the 2004 international games team where my specialty was usually being the number 4 team member whos job it was to jump on a galloping horse or one that was spinning around an object i had just picked up off the ground. Im 34 now and can vault onto anything with 4 legs at any speed with or without a saddle and absolutely without stirrups. This scene in my mind got me going. Bored at work so thanks for that

@sharonrigs7999 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this video. There are so many black American heroes and role models. I wish our youth would be inspired by them instead thugs and rappers who are detrimental to the community.

@thomasgumersell9607 3 ай бұрын

A great video on one battle. Between the Buffalo Soldiers and Comanche First People. Great to see all three Men recognized for their bravery. Being awarded the MOH. 💪🏻🙏🏻✨

@ericgibson2079 3 ай бұрын

Check out Thunder Over the Ochoco by Gale Ontko. 1-5. It's an amazing, hold onto your boot straps with this one folks...

@user-pe4fv9yt8l 3 ай бұрын

I enjoy listening to your stories but could you do more on the Buffalo Soldiers

@conradnelson5283 3 ай бұрын

Good men. Esteemed by their colleagues scorned by the system.

@bold810 3 ай бұрын

At the @11:14 mark, I finally noticed the only picture of an old man compared to the rest.

@colinglen4505 3 ай бұрын

The more i hear about the natives fighting ability the less impressed i am. It seems that they struggled to overcome an enemy unless they had massively superior numbers. Congratulations must go to those brave Buffalo soldiers for winning the medal of honor.

@JackDiamond21 Ай бұрын

Because it's a myth that the Comanche were lords of the plains, off of a horse the Comanche couldn't fight. Back then they were like 5'4 and no taller, a bunch of little dudes on the back on horses that relied on their brutality then fighting ability. I say the real lords of the plains are the Blackfeet people, they got the second biggest reservation, never signed a treaty and fought anyone and held them back. No other tribe has been able to do that, look at the Comanche now they don't even have a home in their native Texas. Got whooped and pushed out, I don't know I just feel the Comanche are overrated. All they seem to have is the brutality they showed to everyone else. One of these stories on this channel had one encounter where Comanche scooped out the brains of one soldier and just left him to rot like that.

@HarupertBeagleton-dz5gw 3 ай бұрын

Horse made a big mistake, life as indian horse is rough.

@bennygarr5468 3 ай бұрын

That's not a Sharps carbine, it's a Sharps. but it's not a carbine😊

@neilpk70 3 ай бұрын

And by 1875 they would've had Springfield '73 carbines.

@MichaelGalt 3 ай бұрын

To be fair... ALWAYS count on admin to screw up and lose your records. Back then, everything was paper. It would literally get lost, get wet, get burned up in fires. It STILL gets lost and messed up all the time now... but, fortunately, most of those systems are digital... back then, it was terrible.

@crewmax4240 2 ай бұрын

Wow! Just Wow!

@danielgerald5358 2 ай бұрын

These were the Black Seminole Negro Scouts.... This group preceded the Buffalo Soilders!!! Great job though!!!!

@malcomshaw5962 2 ай бұрын

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💜🎬

@UnknownUnknown-px5cg 3 ай бұрын

💯🇳🇿

@JohnSmith-dh4gw 3 күн бұрын

Four men. A passel of Comanches. And they didn't even have toilet paper.

@markperrault5678 3 ай бұрын

Not coats

@charlesfish5377 3 ай бұрын

The official history of the Black Seminole Indian scouts is the book "Our Land before we Die" by Jeff Guinn. This was one small story about these brave people, the book tells their story from descendants passed down. Lt. John Bullis left with this group from Ft. Clark, which is now Ft. Clark Springs on the south side of highway 90 in Brackettville, Tx. Ft Clark was where John Wayne and crew stayed when filming " The Alamo", at the time it was a dude ranch as the fort shut down in 1945-46. I now call Ft. Clark Springs home as do some 700 other souls and officers row still stands.

@ThomasCranmer1959 3 ай бұрын

Never heard of the Buffalo coats before. Thank you.

@matthewmann8969 3 ай бұрын

Yeah for many decades after 1864 Amerindians were treated as the lowest of the low not just by North Western European Whites but also Hispanics(Most being Mestizos And Pardos), Mixed Bloods(North Western Euro And Amerindian Mixes), Mediteranneans(Southern Europeans, Middle Easterners, And North Africans), Eastern Europeans, Zambos also called Black Indians(A mix of Sub Saharan African And American Indian), Sub Saharan Africans, East Asians, Ashkenazi Jews, And other Non Amerindian peoples yeah.

@ClementSully-ii2sx 3 ай бұрын

I am a Rosebud Sioux Indian and I love this channel. I am particularly interested in this story because most of the Indians I grew up with on the reservation are very racist towards white people. This really bothers me because it was the Calvary which was the government that was responsible for what happened to our ancestors. The Calvary didn’t consist solely of white men and this is lost on my fellow tribal members. I don’t understand why they are so racist towards white people and I have tried so many times to get my family members to understand that it was the government and it wasn’t “white” people in general. Also the fact that the founding fathers fought against colonialism to establish this country is another thing that they refuse to acknowledge. This country was founded by fighting against the British who were the colonists!

@cipherklosenuf9242 3 ай бұрын

Hi Clement …I appreciated reading your comment. I noticed you self identified as “Rosebud Sioux”. Is that how you prefer to identify or is it just conventional and convenient? I’m just wondering, perhaps you haven’t considered that yourself. Anyway, I’m white, but I know there is nothing more complex than Indian Country politics. I’m noticing more Indian authors and artists and activists presenting their own complex stories and speaking for themselves. Perhaps we agree …That’s good. Who inspires you among these voices? It sounds to me like you think for yourself and have reached different conclusions than many around you …on that I can relate.

@Dontwlookatthis 3 ай бұрын

In his book "My Life on the Plains" Custer wrote that there were liberal groups in New York and Washington D.C. who took up donations and used the money to buy the most modern weapons and smuggle them to the various Indian tribes who were at war with the United States. He said it was disappointing to find the Indians using weapons better than his troopers possessed.

@slugshell2901 Ай бұрын

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@user-om3wm2gz2l 3 ай бұрын

Buffalo soldiers dread lock Rasta

@judithcampbell1705 3 ай бұрын

WOW that was an interesting story. My heart is with the Indians. I can't help it. Every day I think about how hard they fought, and how many have died, all because of their way of life. But I think the real reason is because of the white man( and I'm a white woman) just wanted to steal their land! They were here first and they got a raw deal. Thank you 💛 for this excellent history lesson, Sir. Much appreciated 🙏

@thomaswilliams5457 11 күн бұрын

All tribes toke their land from other tribes by force as was the customs of the times the whites were strongest. If the Indians had all banded together the whites wouldn't have had a chance but they liked killing each other too much

@sunnyjacksmack 3 ай бұрын

I'm looking for a channel that reports some positive history of the west. Maybe they ain't none.

@ATFshootsdogs 3 ай бұрын

The west was not a very positive place

@sunnyjacksmack 3 ай бұрын

@@ATFshootsdogs Yeah you are probably right, that's why so many people flocked there. masochists..lol

@mns8732 3 ай бұрын

To bad President Wilson reversed the inclusion of blacks in American govt services. Thank you Democrats.

@markperrault5678 3 ай бұрын

False you are lying the Indians said the hair on the black soldiers was like the hair on Buffalo

@cipherklosenuf9242 3 ай бұрын

No. Lying is deliberately deceiving someone. The host is clear that it’s an alternative explanation for the term and that it’s less likely. The explanation about supply disruption was interesting. This alternative just adds value and depth to the presentation without deceiving the audience. Your submission is that “the Indians said” makes me wonder which Indians and when and according to what sources?

@daviddigital6887 3 ай бұрын

@@cipherklosenuf9242he's not lying and even said there may be other explanations. I have read it myself in a couple of books. The black mans nappy curly hair reminded the Indians of buffalo hair.

@davidmuir7711 3 ай бұрын

At eight minutes in to this video I’ve heard only a sociological hagiography of the “buffler sojer” and nothing about the skirmish. This must be for black history month so I’m switching off.