Gonzales Memorial Museum
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Marker Text: These men constituted the Texians only line of defense in this hour of destiny, by advising Alcalde Andrew Ponton the 18 delayed for 2 days 150 Mexican dragoons sent by their government to demand the Gonzales Cannon.
It was the strategy of these men that allowed time for colonists to mass volunteers that drove back the enemy in the Battle of Gonzales. At this battle was given to the world a new battle flag and a new war cry " Come and take it" and was started the successful Texian Revolution against the Mexican government. The Old Eighteen Captain Albert Martin Jacob C. Darst Winslow Turner Wm. W. Arrington Gravis Fulcher George W. Davis John Sowell Benjamin Fuqua Thomas Jackson James B. Hinds Thomas R. Miller Valentine Bennet Ezekiel Williams Simeon Bateman Joseph D. Clements Almaron Dickerson Charles Mason Almond Cottle (1936) |
Marker No: 2041
Erected 1936
Museum
Centennial Building
Geographic: 29.504051,-97.443551
Location: 414 Smith Street, Gonzales