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these places by their different names) at the former place 30o or 40
men & at the latter about 60o. During the summer they increased their
forces and collected large quantities of Military stores at these places,
until about the close of August they had 6oo men at Bejar, a General
of division (Cos) had been ordered & was on his way to take com-
mand of these forces, these warlike signs awakened our attention,
meetings were held more frequently, and a public meeting in the
County of Brazoria recommended a "General Consultation", to be
composed of members from all the counties, to meet on the 15th of
October and consult and adopt such measures as might be necessary
to ensure peace if it could be had without a sacrafice [sic] of our dear-
est rights and to devise some remedy for the evils under which we
had labored since the overthrow of our State Government, most of
the Counties concurred & elected delegates, previous to the time fixed
for the meeting of the General Consultation, I beleive [sic] about the
loth of September, the Commandant of the forces at Bejar sent an
order to the authorities of the County of Gonzales to return to that
Post a piece of ordinance [sic] (4 pounder) that had been furnished
them, some years since, by the Government as a defence against the
Indians, threatening, in case they refused to comply with the order,
to send a force to take it, this was considered as a signal for the
commencement of hostilities. The authorities refused to deliver it and
immediately dispatched couriers to all parts of the country, advising
their fellow citizens of their refusal & determination to resist, & calling
upon them for assistance. As was expected when the refusal reached
Bejar a detachment of cavalry, about 150 men were sent on to en-
force the order, this detachment reached the West bank of the River
Guadlupe [sic] opposite Gonzales on the evening of the 28th of Sep-
tember. The appeal of the Citizens had been promptly responded to
& on the same evening there had collected about loo Texians in the
Town ready for a fight. The Mexicans seeing that a force was collected
to repel them, made no attempt to cross the River. Several confer-
ences were held with the Mexican Commander. He was told, that if
he wanted the cannon he must take it, both parties remained in their
positions for three days, on the evening of the third day, the Texians
resolved to cross the River & compel them to fight, surrender or run
away, accordingly the Texians to the number of 12o (about) crossed,
the Mexicans on our approach retreated to Bejar. The War was now
fairly commenced and our only course was to fight it out. Our forces
remained at this place until about the 12th of Oct., reinforcing daily,
when it was resolved to march and attack the Town & garrison of
Bejar before any more troops were introduced into the Country,
accordingly our forces now about 5oo, under command of Gen. Austin
(who had a few weeks before returned to the Country from his long
imprisonment in Mexico) took up the line of march and in about a
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