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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.
Gonzales High School (Grades 9-12) Gonzales Junior High (Grades 7-8) From fall 2021 it will be grades 6-8. [3] North Avenue 6th Grade Center (Grades 6) - From fall 2021 it will be North Avenue Intermediate Campus, grades 3-5. [3] Gonzales Elementary (Grades 3-5) - From fall 2021 it will be grades K-2. [3]
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
James Tumlinson, Jr. signed for receipt of the six-pounder cannon on March 10, 1831, in Bexar. [ 7 ] At the minor skirmish in 1835 known as the Battle of Gonzales —the first land battle of the Texas Revolution against Mexico—a small group of Texians successfully resisted the Mexican forces who had orders from Colonel Domingo de Ugartechea ...
The Gonzales relief forces arrive on the Cibolo below Bexar. March 1 The Convention of 1836 of elected delegates convenes at Washington-on-the-Brazos. Thirty-two to sixty men from Gonzales of the "Gonzales Company of Mounted Volunteers" enter the Alamo at 1:00 A.M. March 2 Texas Declaration of Independence is signed and the Republic of Texas is ...
Gonzales Memorial Museum, Gonzales, Texas. The Immortal 32 was a relief force of thirty-two Texian Militia from the Gonzales Ranger Company who reinforced the Texians under siege at the Alamo. [1] They are "immortalized" as the only unit to answer the To the People of Texas & All Americans in the World letter.
The first military action taken by the new army was the Battle of Gonzales on October 2, 1835. After a skirmish, the Mexican troops withdrew to San Antonio, leaving the cannon with the Texians. [15] After the battle ended, disgruntled colonists continued to assemble in Gonzales, eager to put a decisive end to Mexican control over the area. [16]
Hardin, Stephen L. (1994), Texian Iliad – A Military History of the Texas Revolution, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, ISBN 0-292-73086-1, OCLC 29704011; Lack, Paul D. (1992). The Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political and Social History 1835–1836. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 0-89096-497-1.