Question: where does the phrase come and take it come from
Answer: `` 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 .