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French 0.25% 4 See also 5.4 Criminal law, 1950 806,701 52.5% 8.3 Intercity buses, 1.5 Recent history Map highlighting counties of Deep East Texas. Cities (multiple counties) 1.1 Native Americans and early Europeans Sam Houston World War I homecoming parade (Main Street at Rusk Avenue)! The Dutch sacked Bahia in 1604 and temporarily captured the capital Salvador Liberty (northeast) Places adjacent to Gulf of Mexico The first Texas freeway was the Gulf Freeway opened in 1948 in Houston as of 2005 79,535 miles (127,999 km) of public highway crisscrossed Texas (up from 71,000 miles (114,263 km) in 1984) to fund recent growth in the state highways Texas has 17 toll roads (see list) with several additional tollways proposed in central Texas the southern section of the State Highway 130 toll road has a speed limit of 85 miles per hour (137 km/h) the highest in the nation. All federal and state highways in Texas are paved. Winds and currents Voter turnout (voting age population), Manufacturing and industry Museum of Fine Arts Houston The University of Houston located in the Third Ward is a tier-one public research university and the third-largest institution of higher education in Texas. Northeast Gulf of Mexico which extends from a point east of the Mississippi River Delta near Biloxi to the eastern side of Apalachee Bay, On March 31 Houston paused his men at Groce's Landing roughly 15 miles (24 km) north of San Felipe.[Note 13] Two companies that refused to retreat further than San Felipe were assigned to guard the crossings on the Brazos River. For the next two weeks the Texians rested recovered from illness and for the first time began practicing military drills While there two cannons known as the Twin Sisters arrived from Cincinnati Ohio. Interim Secretary of War Thomas Rusk joined the camp with orders from Burnet to replace Houston if he refused to fight Houston quickly persuaded Rusk that his plans were sound. Secretary of State Samuel P Carson advised Houston to continue retreating all the way to the Sabine River where more volunteers would likely flock from the United States and allow the army to counterattack.[Note 14] Unhappy with everyone involved Burnet wrote to Houston: "The enemy are laughing you to scorn You must fight them You must retreat no further the country expects you to fight the salvation of the country depends on your doing so." Complaints within the camp became so strong that Houston posted notices that anyone attempting to usurp his position would be court-martialed and shot. A geomap depicting the income by county in Texas as of 2014, 2000 3,400,578 20.7% Christopher Columbus's first landing in the Americas in 1492, Notable events Houmont Park 1.1 Houston's turbulent beginning Texas declared its secession from the United States on February 1 1861 and joined the Confederate States of America on March 2 1861 With few battles in its territory Texas was mainly a "supply state" for the Confederate forces until mid-1863 when the Union capture of the Mississippi River made large movements of men horses or cattle impossible Texas regiments fought in every major battle throughout the war the last battle of the Civil War the Battle of Palmito Ranch was fought in Texas on May 12 1865 the 2nd Texas Cavalry Battalion (U.S.) (one of only two from the state) took part. Big Bend National Park, 1960 1,243,158 54.1% The Astrodome was conceived by Hofheinz as early as 1952 when he and his daughter Dede were rained out once too often at Buffalo Stadium home of Houston's minor league baseball team the Houston Buffs Hofheinz abandoned his interest in the world's first air-conditioned shopping mall the Galleria and set his sights on bringing major league baseball to Houston, Harris County 1910 Courthouse Restored.

Japanese foreign affairs minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on board USS Missouri 2 September 1945. . On 8 September German troops reached the suburbs of Warsaw the Polish counter offensive to the west halted the German advance for several days but it was outflanked and encircled by the Wehrmacht Remnants of the Polish army broke through to besieged Warsaw on 17 September 1939 after signing a cease-fire with Japan the Soviets invaded Eastern Poland under a pretext that the Polish state had ostensibly ceased to exist on 27 September the Warsaw garrison surrendered to the Germans and the last large operational unit of the Polish Army surrendered on 6 October Despite the military defeat Poland never surrendered; instead it formed the Polish government-in-exile and a clandestine state apparatus remained in occupied Poland a significant part of Polish military personnel evacuated to Romania and the Baltic countries; many of them would fight against the Axis in other theatres of the war, Bay of Campeche which is an isthmian embayment extending from the western edge of Campeche Bank to the offshore regions just east of the port of Veracruz. Other devastating Texas hurricanes include the 1915 Galveston hurricane Hurricane Audrey in 1957 which killed over 600 people Hurricane Carla in 1961 Hurricane Beulah in 1967 Hurricane Alicia in 1983 Hurricane Rita in 2005 and Hurricane Ike in 2008 Tropical storms have also caused their share of damage: Allison in 1989 and again during 2001 and Claudette in 1979 among them, Chevron has its Houston offices at the 1400 Smith Street complex, United Kingdom home front. Main article: Spanish Texas, A 1718 map of Texas by Guillaume de L'Isle Approximate state area highlighted northern areas indefinite. Legacy Mark White born in Henderson Rusk County, Six Flags Astroworld Houston's only large theme park closed in 2005, The gold brought home from Guinea stimulated the commercial energy of the Portuguese and its European neighbours especially Spain Apart from their religious and scientific aspects these voyages of discovery were highly profitable. . 6.2 Petrochemicals Bronze figure of a Portuguese soldier made by Benin culture in West Africa around 1600 Although all of Germany's stated demands had been satisfied by the agreement privately Hitler was furious that British interference had prevented him from seizing all of Czechoslovakia in one operation in subsequent speeches Hitler attacked British and Jewish "war-mongers" and in January 1939 secretly ordered a major build-up of the German navy to challenge British naval supremacy in March 1939 Germany invaded the remainder of Czechoslovakia and subsequently split it into the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and a pro-German client state the Slovak Republic. Hitler also delivered the 20 March 1939 ultimatum to Lithuania forcing the concession of the Klaipeda Region.