The Road to Independence Chapter 9 The Road to Independence

Mexican General Cos & Mexican troops came to San Antonio Texas settlers became concerned! They formed “Committees of Correspondence” to secretly watch the Mexican troops! The Texans formed these groups to shared political and military information on the Mexican Army …

Battle of Gonzales – nickname “The Lexington of Texas” October 2, 1835 The Mexicans ordered the people of Gonzales to surrender a cannon They sent 100 Mexican soldiers to take it! The Texans buried it in a peach orchard

More Texas troops came to Gonzalez The Texans dug up the cannon and mounted it on a wagon … (fired the cannon on the Mexican Army)

Come and Take It! A flag with a cannon to “taunt” the Mexican Army …

Flag of the Revolution COME AND TAKE IT!

The Texans Fired the Cannon! One Mexican trooper was killed No Texans died! The Mexicans withdrew to San Antonio …

The Texans then captured the town of Goliad Flag

General Cos’s large army had fled to in San Antonio with On to San Antonio! General Cos’s large army had fled to in San Antonio with 700 Mexican troops …

The Siege & Capture of San Antonio by the Texas Army The Texans surrounded the city of San Antonio in a “Siege”… The Mexican Army under General Cos were in the city.

In time, Winter was Coming & November, December, 1835… In time, Winter was Coming & Some Texans Wanted to Go Home ….

Empresario Ben Milam Wanted to attack San Antonio, not go home!! Rallied the Texas troops to attack a weakened Mexican Army under General Cos He led 300 Texas Volunteers in attacking San Antonio

Milam was killed by sniper fire The Assault began on December 5th; After the “Siege of San Antonio” Milam was killed by sniper fire The bloody fighting was hand-to-hand, and house-to-house It was over by December 8-9th …

General Cos was backed into the Alamo Cos promised to return to Mexico and never fight the colonists again (yeah, right …) He surrendered on December 9th