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The battle of gonzales the Texans were mad becaus diers were sent to reclaim a cannon that the Texan settlers of Gonzales had been given for defense against Native American raids The settlers refused to surrender the cannon seeing it as a symbol of their rights and a necessary tool for protection in a period of growing conflict with the centralist Mexican government under Santa Anna The refusal led to a skirmish on October 2, 1835, which became the first military engagement of the Texas revalion