In 1759, Spanish commander Diego Ortiz Parilla led his troop on an expedition to punish the Comanches for raiding and destroying the mission at Santa Cruz de San Saba  earlier that year.  The Spaniards met a force of Comanches, Yaceales and Tawakonis near a heavily defended Taovaya village on the Red River (near the present day town of Spanish Fort).  Things did not go as planned and Ortiz was forced to withdraw from his poorly chosen position on a sandbar and abandon his cannon.  The magnitude of the defeat was exaggerated by Ortiz’s detractors and he was replaced.