OCTOBER 28, 1835 MISSION PURISIMA CONCEPCION…about 2 miles from San Antonio de Bexar Battle of Concepcion

JIM BOWIE JAMES WALKER FANNIN. vs. GENERAL MARTIN COS COL JIM BOWIE JAMES WALKER FANNIN vs. GENERAL MARTIN COS COL. DOMINGO DE URGARTECHEA LT. COL. JOSE MARIA MENDOZA Battle of Concepcion

JIM BOWIE AND JAMES FANNIN WERE SENT TO SCOUT FOR A BASE OF OPERATIONS IN SAN ANTONIO AND THEN WERE SUPPOSED TO RETURN TO STEPHEN F. AUSTIN’S ARMY AT MISSION ESPADA. Battle of Concepcion

TO KEEP THE TEXANS FROM SEEING MEXICAN DEFENSIVE MEASURES, MEXICAN TROOPS TRIED TO RESTRICT ACCESS TO AND FROM THE CITY. STILL, SEVERAL PEOPLE WERE ABLE TO LEAVE THEIR HOME AND JOIN THE TEXAN TROOPS MARCHING THEIR WAY. Battle of Concepcion

INSTEAD OF RETURNING AS ORDERED, BOWIE CAMPED AT MISSION CONCEPCION FOR THE NIGHT. GENERAL COS LEARNED THE ARMY WAS SPLIT, SO HE DECIDED TO ATTACK BOWIE AND HIS MEN. Battle of Concepcion

BOWIE HAD 92 MEN, THE MEXICAN ARMY NUMBERED CLOSE TO 400 AND TWO CANNONS. AT 8:00 IN THE MORNING THE MEXICAN INFANTRY ADVANCED BEHIND THE CANNONS, GUNS A BLAZING. THE TEXANS USING THE LONG RIFLE WERE ABLE TO KILL AT OVER 200 YARDS. Battle of Concepcion

TEXAN SHARPSHOOTERS KILLED 3 PEOPLE TRYING TO FIRE THE CANNON, THE LAST ONE WITH A LIGHT MATCH STILL IN HIS HAND. AFTER 30 MINUTES OF FIGHTING, AND NOBODY WILLING TO FIRE THE CANNON, THE MEXICANS RETREATED. Battle of Concepcion

THE TEXAN FORCES QUICKLY CAPTURED THE CANNON AND TURNED IT ON THE FLEEING MEXICAN SOLDIERS. Battle of Concepcion

OVER 70 MEXICANS WERE KILLED AND AS MANY WERE WOUNDED OVER 70 MEXICANS WERE KILLED AND AS MANY WERE WOUNDED. ONLY ONE TEXAN WAS KILLED IN THE FIGHT. THIS WAS THE LAST OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE TEXANS THAT COS WOULD ORDER. Battle of Concepcion