Posted on 10/02/2015 10:06:29 AM PDT by The Bat Ladys Husband
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Sara Seely DeWitt and her daughter Evaline made the flag, back then referred to as the Old Cannon Flag, now called the Come and Take It flag. Depicted on a white cloth was a cannon with a lone star above it, and the words "come and take it" beneath the cannon. It was Texas' first battle flag, and first lone star flag and was flown at the Battle of Gonzales called the Lexington of Texas.
The Battle of Gonzales was the first military engagement of the Texas Revolution. It was fought near Gonzales, Texas, on October 2, 1835, between rebellious Texian settlers and a detachment of Mexican army troops.
In 1831, Mexican authorities gave the settlers of Gonzales a small cannon to help protect them from frequent Comanche raids. Over the next four years, the political situation in Mexico deteriorated, and in 1835 several states revolted. As the unrest spread, Colonel Domingo de Ugartechea, the commander of all Mexican troops in Texas, felt it unwise to leave the residents of Gonzales a weapon and requested the return of the cannon.
When the initial request was refused, Ugartechea sent 100 dragoons to retrieve the cannon. The soldiers neared Gonzales on September 29, but the colonists used a variety of excuses to keep them from the town, while secretly sending messengers to request assistance from nearby communities. Within two days, up to 140 Texians gathered in Gonzales, all determined not to give up the cannon. On October 1, settlers voted to initiate a fight. Mexican soldiers opened fire as Texians approached their camp in the early hours of October 2. After several hours of desultory firing, the Mexican soldiers withdrew
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That’s right, baby, Come and Take it! That’s how we hellraising hillbillies say ‘Molon Labe’
Just think, if they’d only had John Kerry on the scene, he could have requested a deconfliction meeting.
Thank you for remembering this important event.
Everyone , not just Texans, need to keep this slogan in mind. If BO could he would try to take all our guns.
Come and take them.
There was a legend that the cannon that the Mexicans tried to take back was buried along Sandies Creek in western Gonzales County near where my father-in-law had some land. Alas, we never found it.
Buried,,
Let’s go Find It !
To keep the Mexicans from getting the cannon, they buried it in the creek bank. Then they couldn’t find it. It was uncovered in 1939? after a flood. You can see it at the museum in Gonzales. Not a very fearsome weapon. It has a bore about the size of a ping-pong ball. After over 100 years in the water/mud the wooden carriage had rotted away.
I guess that is why we never found it. Ha.
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