Post by Saris on Jul 30, 2017 13:49:24 GMT -6
Gonzales Ranging Company of Mounted Volunteers
About Us
Gonzales Ranging Company of Mounted Volunteers is a semi-hardcore group looking to defend what we hold dear and driving back anybody who tries to take what we care for away from us. We are looking for people who are interested in a historical based company that shows no mercy to whoever gets in our way even if it means fighting to the very end.
History
At dawn on the first of March [1836], Capt. Albert Martin, with 32 men (himself included) from Gonzales and DeWitt's Colony, passed the lines of Santa Anna and entered the walls of the Alamo, never more to leave them. These men, chiefly husbands and fathers, owning their own homes, voluntarily organized and passed through the lines of an enemy four to six thousand strong, to join 150 of their countrymen and neighbors, in a fortress doomed to destruction.
From the very first shot of the revolution at Gonzales to the last to reinforce the Alamo garrison, men of Gonzales and DeWitt's Colony played a crucial role in the Revolution. 5 of the "Old Eighteen" would join their Texian brothers along with 27 other revolutionaries who be immortalized thanks to their sacrifice at the Alamo giving Sam Houston and his Texian army enough time to fall back east and to train for a battle that would decide the fate of the Texas Republic and it's future.
The story started months earlier in Gonzales, a town in DeWitt’s Colony. Established in 1825, Gonzales became known as “the Lexington of Texas” when the first shot in the Texas Revolution was fired there Oct. 2, 1835. The Battle of Gonzales began over a cannon the Mexican government had given to the Texians in 1831 so they could protect themselves from frequent Indian attacks. In September 1835, as disputes between the Texians and the Mexican government heated up, the governor of Coahuila y Tejas sent 100 Mexican soldiers to retrieve the cannon.
The Mexican Army did not take the defeat well.
Four months later, when Travis, already besieged, sent his final appeal, the men of Gonzales and the surrounding area felt honor-bound to go to the defense of the Alamo defenders. Twenty-five men left Gonzales on the evening of February 27. More joined the group as it traveled. When they reached San Antonio de Béxar, they spent two days trying to figure a way past the sea of Mexican troops. At 3 a.m. on March 1 — knowing their chances of survival were slim — the Rangers made a mad dash for the mission gates, braving the fire of Alamo sentries who mistook them for enemy combatants.
The Immortal 32 fell with the Alamo on March 6. They composed about 20 percent of the Anglo casualties. Mexican troops burned the bodies of all the Alamo defenders, whom they considered traitors.
A crypt in the San Fernando Cathedral purports to hold the ashes of the Alamo defenders. Historians believe it is more likely the ashes were buried near the Alamo.
The majority of the Immortal 32 were husbands, fathers, and landowners. Five had been among the Old Eighteen, and one was the younger brother of an Old Eighteen member.
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