When discontent flared into defiance of the central government in the summer of 1835, planters and merchants ... Collinsworth that Cos had gone to San Antonio leaving only a token contingent ...

began fighting for independence from Mexico in 1835. By December of that year, the small Texas army captured the important crossroads town of San Antonio de Bexar and seized the garrison known as ...

Both participated in the December 1835 storming of Bexar that resulted in withdrawal of Mexican forces from San Antonio, and ...