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Smithwick reported that the cannon was buried near a creek not far from Gonzales. [37] A small iron cannon was exposed during a June 1936 flood near Gonzales. In 1979, this cannon was purchased by Dr. Patrick Wagner, who believed it matched Smithwick's descriptions of the cannon used in the battle.
Texas newspapers, 1813-1939: A union list of newspaper files available in offices of publishers, libraries, and a number of private collections. Houston. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ; John Melton Wallace (1966), Gaceta to Gazette: A Check List of Texas Newspapers, 1813-1846; G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). "General Studies: Texas".
1840 Gonzales men join the Battle of Plum Creek against Buffalo Hump and his Comanches. 1850 Gonzales College is founded by slave-owning planters, and is the first institution in Texas to confer A.B. degrees on women. 1853 The Gonzales Inquirer begins publication. [16] 1860 County population is 8,059, including 3,168 slaves. 1861
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Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas has won his primary over a gun-rights activist who pushed the border congressman to a runoff and threatened to unseat a U.S. House incumbent. Gonzales ...
Gonzales is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, with a population of 7,165 at the 2020 census. [6] It is the county seat of Gonzales County. [7] The "Come and Take It" incident, the ride of the Immortal 32 into the Alamo, and the Runaway Scrape after the fall of the Alamo, all integral events in the War for Texas Independence from Mexico, originated in Gonzales.
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Conjectural replica at the Texas State Capitol showing spiked touch-hole Monument in Gonzales, Texas. In January 1831, Green DeWitt wrote to Ramón Músquiz, the top political official of Bexar, and requested armament for defense of the colony of Gonzales. This request was granted by supplying a Spanish made six-pounder bronze cannon on the ...