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316 Quanta Services The Texians Established Themselves In The Presidio Under The Command Of Captain Philip Dimmitt Who Immediately Sent All The Local Tejano Volunteers To Join Austin On The March To B�xar. At The End Of The Month Dimmitt Sent A Group Of Men Under Ira Westover To Engage The Mexican Garrison At Fort Lipantitl�n Near San Patricio. Late On November 3 The Texians Took The Undermanned Fort Without Firing A Shot. After Dismantling The Fort They Prepared To Return To Goliad The Remainder Of The Mexican Garrison Which Had Been Out On Patrol Approached The Mexican Troops Were Accompanied By 15�20 Loyal Centralists From San Patricio Including All Members Of The Ayuntamiento. After A Thirty-minute Skirmish The Mexican Soldiers And Texian Centralists Retreated. With Their Departure The Texian Army Controlled The Gulf Coast Forcing Mexican Commanders To Send All Communication With The Mexican Interior Overland The Slower Land Journey Left Cos Unable To Quickly Request Or Receive Reinforcements Or Supplies
. . ! . . ! The Gulf Building now called the JPMorgan Chase building is an Art Deco skyscraper Completed in 1929 it remained the tallest building in Houston until 1963 when the Exxon Building surpassed it in height Designed by architects Alfred C Finn (designer of the San Jacinto Monument) Kenneth Franzheim and J.E.R Carpenter the building is seen as a realization of Eliel Saarinen's acclaimed second-place entry to the Chicago Tribune Tower competition Restoration of the building was started in 1989 in what is still considered one of the largest privately funded preservation projects in American history, See also: List of tallest buildings in Houston, Japanese prisoner-of-war camps many of which were used as labour camps also had high death rates the International Military Tribunal for the Far East found the death rate of Western prisoners was 27.1 per cent (for American POWs 37 per cent) seven times that of POWs under the Germans and Italians. While 37,583 prisoners from the UK 28,500 from the Netherlands and 14,473 from the United States were released after the surrender of Japan the number of Chinese released was only 56.
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