The First Battle of the Texas Revolution? Correo vs San Felipe

On the day in September 1835 that Stephen F. Austin returned to Texas from his stint in a Mexican prison, the first shots of the Texas Revolution were fired. Not at Gonzales or Goliad or the Alamo...but just off the coast, near Velasco.

Michelle M Haas

Chairman, Texas History Trust.
Lead designer, managing editor and researcher at Copano Bay Press.
Native of the Texas Coastal Plains.

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