COME AND TAKE IT

摘要

The first shots in the Texas Revolution popped sporadically across the fog-shrouded live oak bluffs along the Guadalupe River near Gonzales, Texas, at dawn on October 2, 1835, after Mexican soldiers arrived to reclaim a small cannon from Texas colonists. The Texians surreptitiously buried the weapon and unfurled a hastily assembled flag with one lone black star and an image of the diminutive cannon underlain with the response that began the revolution: "Come and Take It."