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- noun Plural form of
Lipan .
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Examples
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"Lipans," said Obed, "one of the fiercest of all the southwestern tribes.
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Afraid to fight Comanches alone, the Lipans invested much time goading the white man to chase their enemy.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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There the Lipans found a Comanche camp of sixty lodges eight to ten people in a lodge was normal.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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About mid-winter a party of hostile Lipans made a swoop around and skirting the garrison, killing a herder -- a discharged drummer-boy -- in sight of the flag-staff.
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The Lipans, victims of near extermination by the Comanches, could always be counted on to betray their old tormentors, to sniff them out and go running to the authorities.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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John Henry Brown writes that there were fifty-five whites, forty-two Lipans, and twelve Tonkawas.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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That year several Apache bands, including the numerous Lipans, rode into San Antonio to sign a peace treaty.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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Those bands who were not driven westward, including the Lipans, ended up in the bone-dry scrublands of the Texas Trans-Pecos.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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The Lipans and other bands never had any intention of converting to Christianity.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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In one fight he took one hundred twenty men and fifteen to twenty Lipan Apaches into battle against a vastly larger force of Comanches, losing twenty to thirty.47 In another he took fifty Texans and ten Lipans, engaged a larger force in a running fight for an hour and a half.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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