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| Keywords: The "Come and Take It" Cannon, housed at the Gonzales Memorial Museum in Gonzales, Texas LCCN2014633596.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; 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 On January 1 1831 Green DeWitt initiated the new year by writing Ramon Mṡquiz the political chief of Bexar asking him to make arrangements for a cannon to be furnished to the Gonzales colonists for protection against hostile Indians On March 10 1831 after some delay James Tumlinson Jr a DeWitt colonist at Bexar received one bronze cannon to be turned over to Green DeWitt at Gonzales The cannon is lost to history until September 1835 when Col Domingo de Ugartechea the military commander at Bexar sent Corporal Casimiro De Leon and five soldiers of the Second Flying Company of San Carlos de Parras to retrieve the cannon The Gonzales colonists notified Ugartechea they were keeping the gun and took the soldiers prisoner The cannon was then buried in George W Davis's peach orchard and couriers sent to the Anglo-Celtic settlements on the Colorado River to obtain armed assistance Ugartechea responded by sending 100 troops under Lt Francisco de Casta±eda to make a more serious request for the return of the gun On September 29 Capt Robert M Coleman arrived at Gonzales with a militia company of thirty mounted Indian fighters The gun was retrieved from its shallow grave taken to John Sowell's blacksmith shop and mounted on a pair of cart wheels After organization of the Texian Army of the People under Gen Stephen F Austin the cannon was assigned to Capt James C Neill's artillery company and hauled to San Antonio After the capture of Bexar in December 1835 the cannon remained at the Alamo where it was one of twenty-one artillery pieces commandeered by the Mexican army upon the recapture of Bexar on March 6 1836 The name Come and Take It refers to the motto adopted by the Texian rebels ; Forms part of Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; DLC/PP-2014 054 ; Credit line The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division 2014 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2014633596 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/29300/29396a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 29396 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 29396 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||