where did the phrase come and take it come from
"Come and take it" is an historic slogan, first used in the Battle of Thermopylae as "Molon labe" by Spartan King Leonidas I when asked by the Persian Army to surrender, and later in 1778 at Fort Morris in the Province of Georgia during the American Revolutionary War, and in 1835 at the Battle of Gonzales during the Texas Revolution.