<P> "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 . </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>

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