<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (January 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (January 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> "Come and take it" is a historic slogan, first used in 480 BC in the Battle of Thermopylae as "Molon labe" by Spartan King Leonidas I as a defiant answer and last stand to the surrender demanded by the Persian Army, and later in 1778 at Fort Morris in the Province of Georgia during the American revolution, and in 1835 at the Battle of Gonzales during the Texas Revolution . </P> <P> Sunbury, Georgia, is now a ghost town, though in the past it was active as a port, located east of Hinesville . Fort Morris was constructed in Sunbury by the authority of the Continental Congress . A contingent of British soldiers attempted to take the fort on November 25, 1778 . The American contingent at Fort Morris was led by Colonel John McIntosh (c. 1748 - 1826). The Americans numbered only 127 Continental soldiers plus militiamen and local citizens . The fort itself was crudely constructed and could not have withstood any concerted attack . </P>

Where does the phrase come and take it come from