BATTLE OF GONZALES
When Domingo de Ugartechea,qv military commander in Texas, received word that the American colonists of Gonzales refused to surrender a small cannon that had been given that settlement in 1831 as a defense against the Indians, he dispatched Francisco de Castañedaqv and 100 dragoons to retrieve it.
Texas Militiamen, fought off the Mexican Dragoons under a flag showing a cannon and the words "Come and Take It".
It was the first flag of Texas and the flag Robert A. Heinlein used for his rebels in the novel "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"