:April 9 – Robert E. Lee formally surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House.
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The colonists put up armed resistance, with the cannon pointed at the Mexican troops, and above it a banner proclaiming, "Come and take it".
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As a child he attended the local public schools in Gonzales County and later enrolled at West Texas Military Academy in San Antonio, Texas.