Original sentence: Ford and his joint force of Rangers and Tonkawa began an all-day battle with an attack on a Comanche village.Iron Jacket, so named for the coat of iron mail he wore in battle was killed in this exchange, and the remainder of his village was saved by the intervention of Peta Nocona with a third force of Comanche who arrived to engage Ford while all the villages along the Canadian made a swift withdrawal.The Battle of Little Robe Creek was actually three distinct engagements over the course of a single day.The Battle of Little Robe Creek was notable in that the Texan forces first invaded the United States in violation of federal law and numerous Indian Treaties, attacked villages without warning, and allowed their allied Indians, the Tonkawa, to eat some of the Comanche killed in battle.The first was the attack on the village.The second was a follow-up attack on the village of Iron Jacket, somewhat farther up the Canadian River
Edited sentence: Ford and his joint force of Rangers and Tonkawa began an all-day battle with a dawn attack on a sleeping Comanche village.Iron Jacket, so named for the coat of iron mail he wore in battle was killed in this exchange, and the remainder of his village was saved by the timely intervention of Peta Nocona with a third force of Comanche who arrived to engage Ford while all the villages along the Canadian made a swift withdrawal.The Battle of Little Robe Creek was notable in that the Texan forces first, invaded the United States against every tenet of federal law and numerous Indian Treaties, attacked Indian villages without warning of any kind, and allowed their allied Indians, the Tonkawa, to eat some of the Comanche killed in battle.The first was the attack on the sleeping village.The second was a follow up attack on the village of Iron Jacket, somewhat further up the Canadian River.The so-called Battle of Little Robe Creek was actually three distinct separate incidents which happened over the course of a single day