Historical Marker
First Shot of the Texas Revolution
Gonzales, Gonzales County · Texas
Erected 1936
Two guns were used that day, though American accounts name one. Castañeda's reports of October 2 and 4 describe both the bronze six-pounder and a much smaller iron esmeril, and the esmeril was the first fired, in the second skirmish. Noah Smithwick repaired its touch hole, but its carriage failed on the march to San Antonio and it was left at Sandies Creek until a flood in 1936 uncovered it; it is now in the Gonzales Memorial Museum. The bronze gun went on to the siege of Bexar and was buried inside the Alamo compound with other captured guns.
What the plaque says
First Shot of the Texas Revolution One and one-half miles from here the first shot of the Texas Revolution was fired from a small cannon by Texans under the command of Col. John H. Moore, October 2, 1835.
Where it stands
29.43872, -97.52153 · Directions
More markers nearby
- Site of the First Shot of the Texas Revolution — steps away
- Site of Cost School — steps away
- James Hodges, Sr. — 4.7 mi
- Community of Wrightsboro — 5.2 mi