Stephen F. Austin returned to Texas at the mouth of the Brazos River on 1-Sep-1835 after two years in Mexico, most of it in prison, and arrived during a sea battle between Texians and a Mexican gunboat that became known as the San Felipe Incident, the first shot of the Texas Revolution. Eight months later, just after the Battle of San Jacinto, the new government of the Republic of Texas met at Velasco and negotiated with the captured Santa Anna to create the public and private Treaties of Velasco and secure Texas independence. In this way, the Texas Revolution both began and ended within yards of each other at Old Velasco.