The Come and Take It cannon

I knew there was a lot of disagreement about this cannon from the Texas Revolution. Apparently this is the very one. Unless you believe the versions that say it was lost long ago and never found. The Gonzales version, seen here in the Gonzales Memorial Museum, supposedly was made by a local blacksmith. He must have been expert, indeed. The version I always heard was that the Mexican army loaned the little popgun to the American colonists to help fight off Indian attacks. Who else would something that small impress? The “Come and Take It” slogan of the time, referring to the Mexican demand for the cannon back, is from the ancient Greek, Molon labe.