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A Mexican colonel in Nacogdoches told the people living there to bring in their guns and stack them.
That was the second of August, 1832, more than three years before anybody fired a shot at Gonzales. The Handbook of Texas says this fight is sometimes called the opening gun of the Texas Revolution. Sometimes called, which is a hedge worth keeping, because it is a contested title. The shape of what happened, though, is not in doubt.
That was the second of August, 1832, more than three years before anybody fired a shot at Gonzales. The Handbook of Texas says this fight is sometimes called the opening gun of the Texas Revolution. Sometimes called, which is a hedge worth keeping, because it is a contested title. The shape of what happened, though, is not in doubt.
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in case anyone else had issues trying to rad the full text of the previous post, here it is:
A Mexican colonel in Nacogdoches told the people living there to bring in their guns and stack them.
That was the second of August, 1832, more than three years before anybody fired a shot at Gonzales. The Handbook of Texas says this fight is sometimes called the opening gun of the Texas Revolution. Sometimes called, which is a hedge worth keeping, because it is a contested title. The shape of what happened, though, is not in doubt.
Colonel Jose de las Piedras commanded the Twelfth Permanent Battalion in town. He had just come back from looking into the trouble down at Anahuac and had no intention of letting the same thing start on his ground, so he ordered the settlers disarmed.
What he got instead was the town council. The ayuntamiento of Nacogdoches, Tejano members included, refused him, organized what they called a National Militia, and on the twenty eighth of July sent riders out to Ayish Bayou, to Tenaha, to San Felipe, to every settlement within reach, asking for men.
The men came.
The fighting ran through the second of August. The reported cost to Piedras was forty seven killed and forty or more wounded. On the Texan side, three killed with a fourth dying later, and four wounded. Those figures come from the Texan accounts, as such figures usually do, so hold them loosely.
Piedras was paroled and rode south for Mexico. And the thing actually at stake was not settled in the least, only postponed, because it was never really about one colonel or one battalion. It was about a government that had decided in 1830 to shut the door on immigration, plant garrisons, and put customs men on the coast, and a population out here with no intention of being governed that way.
Three years later somebody at Gonzales pointed at a cannon and dared them to come take it. Everybody knows that one. This came first.
A Mexican colonel in Nacogdoches told the people living there to bring in their guns and stack them.
That was the second of August, 1832, more than three years before anybody fired a shot at Gonzales. The Handbook of Texas says this fight is sometimes called the opening gun of the Texas Revolution. Sometimes called, which is a hedge worth keeping, because it is a contested title. The shape of what happened, though, is not in doubt.
Colonel Jose de las Piedras commanded the Twelfth Permanent Battalion in town. He had just come back from looking into the trouble down at Anahuac and had no intention of letting the same thing start on his ground, so he ordered the settlers disarmed.
What he got instead was the town council. The ayuntamiento of Nacogdoches, Tejano members included, refused him, organized what they called a National Militia, and on the twenty eighth of July sent riders out to Ayish Bayou, to Tenaha, to San Felipe, to every settlement within reach, asking for men.
The men came.
The fighting ran through the second of August. The reported cost to Piedras was forty seven killed and forty or more wounded. On the Texan side, three killed with a fourth dying later, and four wounded. Those figures come from the Texan accounts, as such figures usually do, so hold them loosely.
Piedras was paroled and rode south for Mexico. And the thing actually at stake was not settled in the least, only postponed, because it was never really about one colonel or one battalion. It was about a government that had decided in 1830 to shut the door on immigration, plant garrisons, and put customs men on the coast, and a population out here with no intention of being governed that way.
Three years later somebody at Gonzales pointed at a cannon and dared them to come take it. Everybody knows that one. This came first.