Key Facts About the Battle of Gonzales

Key Facts About the Battle of Gonzales On October 2, 1835, defiant Texans and Mexican troopers conflicted in the unassuming community of Gonzales. This little encounter would have a lot bigger outcomes, as it is viewed as the primary skirmish of Texas War of Independence from Mexico. Therefore, the battle at Gonzales is here and there called the Lexington of Texas, alluding to the spot which saw the principal battling of the American Revolutionary War. The fight brought about one dead Mexican warrior however no different setbacks. Introduction to Battle By late 1835 pressures between Anglo Texans - called Texians - and Mexican authorities in Texas. The Texians were turning out to be increasingly defiant, resisting rules, carrying merchandise into and out of the area and for the most part slighting Mexican power each opportunity they could. In this manner, Mexican President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna had provided the request that the Texians be incapacitated. Santa Clause Annas brother by marriage, General Martã ­n Perfecto de Cos, was in Texas seeing that the request was completed. The Cannon of Gonzales A few years beforehand, the individuals of the modest community of Gonzales had mentioned a gun for use in safeguard against Indian attacks, and one had been accommodated them. In September 1835, after requests from Cos, Colonel Domingo Ugartechea sent a bunch of officers to Gonzales to recover the gun. Pressures were intense in the town, as a Mexican warrior had as of late whipped a resident of Gonzales. The individuals of Gonzales indignantly would not restore the gun and even captured the troopers sent to recover it. Mexican Reinforcements Ugartechea then sent a power of around 100 dragoons (light rangers) under the order of Lieutenant Francisco de Castaã ±eda to recover the gun. A little Texian civilian army met them at the stream close Gonzales and revealed to them that the civic chairman (with whom Castaã ±eda wished to talk) was inaccessible. The Mexicans were not permitted to go into Gonzales. Castaã ±eda chose to pause and set up camp. After several days, when informed that furnished Texian volunteers were flooding into Gonzales, Castaã ±eda moved his camp and kept on pausing. The Battle of Gonzales The Texians were ruining for a battle. Before the finish of September, there were somewhere in the range of 140 furnished radicals good to go in Gonzales. They chose John Moore for lead them, granting him the position of Colonel. The Texians crossed the waterway and assaulted the Mexican camp on the hazy morning of October 2, 1835. The Texians even utilized the gun being referred to during their assault, and flew a temporary banner perusing â€Å"Come and Take it.† Castaã ±eda quickly required a truce and asked Moore for what valid reason they had assaulted him. Moore answered that they were battling for the gun and the Mexican constitution of 1824, which had ensured rights for Texas however had since been supplanted. The Aftermath of the Battle of Gonzales Castaã ±eda didn't need a battle: he was compelled to keep away from one if conceivable and may have felt for the Texans as far as states rights. He withdrew to San Antonio, having lost one man murdered in real life. The Texan radicals didn't lose anybody, the most exceedingly terrible injury being a wrecked nose endured when a man tumbled off a pony. It was a short, inconsequential fight, yet it before long blossomed into something substantially more significant. The blood spilled that October morning denoted a final turning point for the insubordinate Texians. Their triumph in Gonzales implied that displeased frontiersmen and pilgrims all over Texas shaped into dynamic volunteer armies and waged war against Mexico. Inside two or three weeks, all of Texas was quite agitated and Stephen F. Austin had been named officer of every Texan power. For the Mexicans, it was an affront to their national respect, a bold test by defiant residents which should have been put down promptly and definitively. Concerning the gun, its destiny is questionable. Some state it was covered along a street not long after the fight. A gun found in 1936 might be it and it is as of now in plain view in Gonzales. It additionally may have gone to the Alamo, where it would have seen activity in the incredible fight there: the Mexicans liquefied down a portion of the guns they caught after the fight. The Battle of Gonzales is viewed as the main genuine clash of the Texas Revolution, which would proceed through the incredible Battle of the Alamo and not be chosen until the Battle of San Jacinto. Today, the fight is praised in the town of Gonzales, where there is a yearly re-authorization and there are chronicled markers to show the different significant areas of the fight. Sources Brands, H.W. Solitary Star Nation: The Epic Story of the Battle for Texas Brands, H.W. Solitary Star Nation: The Epic Story of the Battle for Texas Independence. Soft cover, Reprint version, Anchor, February 8, 2005. Henderson, Timothy J. A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and its War with the United States. first Edition, Hill and Wang, May 13, 2008.