Gonzales Flag Frame Size:Collector Size (25"x18") and the relative importance of

and the relative importance of different communities

and word was received that Santa Anna was forming an army of thousands to invade Texas

Native American territories are marked on the map as well as the routes of explorers including Long

Oil derricks on this map mark the location of wildcat wells across the state

Gonzales Flag Frame Size:Collector Size (25"x18") and the relative importance ofIn late September, 1835, Colonel Ugartechea, the commander of the Mexican garrison at San Antonio, sent a few men to Gonzales to recover a cannon that had been loaned to the town to fight off occasional Indian attacks. The citizens of Gonzales realized that the intent of the move was to disarm possible rebels, and so the request was denied. Ugartechea then sent dragoons under Captain Francisco Castaneda to demand the cannon unconditionally. As word of