1995年9月1日 · The Gonzales cannon of “Come and Take It” fame was a Spanish-made, bronze artillery piece of six-pound caliber. The gun was the object of contention in late September and early October 1835 between a Mexican military detachment from Bexar and American colonists who settled in Texas.

It was fought near Gonzales, Texas, on October 2, 1835, between rebellious Texian settlers and a detachment of Mexican army soldiers. In 1831, Green DeWitt asked the Mexican authorities to lend the Gonzales colonists a cannon to help protect them from frequent Comanche raids.

2021年10月2日 · The little cannon on display in Gonzales was at the battle, but it was not the cannon the Mexican army had come to take. The little gun pictured is a Spanish esmeril, about 22 inches long and weighing a little under 70 pounds.

2025年2月3日 · After a flood of American settlers arrived in Texas, the Mexican government felt threatened and closed its borders. President Santa Anna deploys troops to Gonzales to retrieve a cannon that was previously provided to the settlers for …

2020年8月2日 · Gonzales, Battle of. When Domingo de Ugartechea , military commander in Texas, received word that the American colonists of Gonzales refused to surrender a small cannon that had been given that settlement in 1831 as a defense against the Indians, he dispatched Francisco de Castañeda and 100 dragoons to retrieve it.

2014年4月23日 · - The Spanish-made, bronze artillery piece was the object of contention in late September and early October 1835 between a Mexican military detachment from Bexar and Anglo-Celtic colonists. The disagreement produced the Battle of Gonzales, considered to be the first battle of the Texas Revolution.

2020年12月7日 · On the morning of October 2, 1835, the Texians attacked the Mexican camp. They loaded the cannon with scrap iron and fired the shot that began the revolution while flying their new “Come and Take it” flag. Ordered to avoid open conflict, Castañeda retreated with one casualty. He asked Moore why the Texians had attacked.

Dr. Wagner and Come and Take It Cannon. X-rayed and magnified, to the point of using the huge x-ray machine at an airbase in San Antonio, both Dr. Wagner and Doug Kubacek confirmed that this was a cannon made by a blacksmith in Gonzales, since they had access to a detailed diary the blacksmith kept on the repairs done to the touch hole.

Like all artifacts, documents, historic sources and views on Texas history, particularly those with especially significant symbolic value, the fate of the Gonzales Cannon is a source of …

2017年10月2日 · The bronze Spanish six-pound cannon that ignited the skirmish known as the Battle of Gonzales and, by extension, the Texas Revolution, was originally requested by empresario Green DeWitt on ...