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On this site, on September 29, 1835, eighteen Texians, by advising with Alcalde Andrew Ponton, began the strategy that for two days held one hundred fifty Mexican dragoons sent to demand the Gonzales cannon, allowing colonists time to mass recruits for the Battle of Gonzales: Captain Albert Martin, Almond Cottle, Jacob C. Darst, Ezekiel Williams, Winslow Turner, Simeon Bateman, Wm. W. Arrington, Joseph D. Clements, Gravis Fulcher, Almaron Dickerson, George W. Davis, Benjamin Fuqua, John Sowell, Valentine Bennet, James B. Hinds, Charles Mason, Thomas R. Miller, and Thomas Jackson.
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Gonzales, Texas · United States
