The Pelican was then sent as a prize to Matagorda but she ran aground on a sandbar off the port and was wrecked.
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However, in the first naval battle of the war involving Texas, rebels boarded the American owned ship San Felipe and the steamer Laura on September 1, 1835 and then proceeded to attack the Mexican treasury vessel Correo de Mexico off Brazoria, which was taken as a prize to New Orleans.
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