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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.
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
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 Independent School District is a public school district based in Gonzales, Texas . Located in Gonzales County , a small portion of the district extends into Caldwell County . The school district was recently engaged in a scandal over the use of prison jumpsuits as a way to combat violators of their dress codes.
October 10, 1835 Texans captured Presidio La Bahia, blocking the Mexican Army in Texas from accessing the primary Texas port of Copano. [1] One Texan was wounded, [2] and estimates of Mexican casualties range from one to three soldiers killed and from three to seven wounded. [3] [4] T Battle of Concepción: San Antonio de Bexar: October 28, 1835
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 .
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 ...
The Gonzales County Courthouse is located in Gonzales, capital of the county of the same name in the U.S. state of Texas. It was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1966 [2] and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. [3] It is the second building to serve as the county courthouse. The first burned on ...