The Gonzales Cannons

     Cannons define Gonzales, yesterday and today. Six of them, in fact. One is the famous “Come and Take It” cannon, a bronze 6-pounder that was the reason for the first battle of the Texas Revolution. It was used in the Siege of Bexar in 1835, the Battle of the Alamo in 1836, and today, in its recast form, hangs in a bell tower in a church in San Antonio.   There were also two small iron cannons of less than 1- pound caliber, one of which fired the first shot in the Battle of Gonzales; both of which had been used in the Battle of Velasco in 1832. Three more guns, two bronze 4-pounders and an iron 9-pounder, were at Gonzales in March of 1836 and abandoned in the Runaway Scrape.  These three cannons are apparently still in the river and a slough near Gonzales today, waiting for some intrepid adventurer to mount a search to find them.  
     Read the full story of the battle in my book The Battle of Gonzales and its Two Cannons, or click on the link below for a summary of the six Gonzales cannons.

The Gonzales Cannons