OCTOBER 28, 1835
MISSION PURISIMA
CONCEPCION…about 2 miles from San
Antonio de Bexar
Battle of Concepcion
JIM BOWIE
JAMES WALKER FANNIN
vs.
GENERAL MARTIN COS
COL. DOMINGO DE URGARTECHEA
Battle of Concepcion
JIM BOWIE AND JAMES FANNIN
WERE SENT TO SCOUT FOR A BASE
OF OPERATIONS IN SAN ANTONIO
AND THEN WERE SUPPOSED TO
RETURN TO STEPHEN F. AUSTIN’S
ARMY AT MISSION ESPADA.
Battle of Concepcion
FANNIN FOLLOWING ORDERS,
RETURNED TO ESPADA BUT…INSTEAD
OF RETURNING AS ORDERED, BOWIE
CAMPED AT MISSION CONCEPCION
FOR THE NIGHT. GENERAL COS LEARNED
THE ARMY WAS SPLIT, SO HE DECIDED
TO ATTACK BOWIE AND HIS MEN.
Battle of Concepcion
BOWIE HAD 92 MEN, THE MEXICAN
ARMY NUMBERED CLOSE TO 400 AND
TWO CANNONS. AT 8:00 IN THE
MORNING THE MEXICAN INFANTRY
ADVANCED BEHIND THE CANNONS,
GUNS A BLAZING. THE TEXANS USING
THE LONG RIFLE WERE ABLE TO KILL AT
OVER 200 YARDS.
Battle of Concepcion
TEXAN SHARPSHOOTERS KILLED 3
PEOPLE TRYING TO FIRE THE
CANNON, THE LAST ONE WITH A
LIGHT MATCH STILL IN HIS HAND.
AFTER 30 MINUTES OF FIGHTING,
AND NOBODY WILLING TO FIRE THE
CANNON, THE MEXICANS
RETREATED.
Battle of Concepcion
THE TEXAN FORCES QUICKLY
CAPTURED THE CANNON AND
TURNED IT ON THE FLEEING
MEXICAN SOLDIERS.
Battle of Concepcion
OVER 70 MEXICANS WERE KILLED AND
AS MANY WERE WOUNDED. ONLY ONE
TEXAN WAS KILLED IN THE FIGHT.
THIS WAS THE LAST OFFENSIVE
AGAINST THE TEXANS THAT COS
WOULD ORDER.
Battle of Concepcion