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. 7 Further reading For years Mexican authorities used the reconquering of Texas as an excuse for implementing new taxes and making the army the budgetary priority of the impoverished nation. Only sporadic skirmishes resulted. Larger expeditions were postponed as military funding was consistently diverted to other rebellions out of fear that those regions would ally with Texas and further fragment the country.[Note 17] the northern Mexican states the focus of the Matamoros Expedition briefly launched an independent Republic of the Rio Grande in 1839 the same year the Mexican Congress considered a law to declare it treasonous to speak positively of Texas in June 1843 leaders of the two nations declared an armistice, As with other parts of Texas and/or the South other popular sporting activities in East Texas include rodeo (including PRCA) hunting and fishing Prominent rodeos in East Texas are held in Beaumont Nacogdoches Paris Longview Gladewater Huntsville Lufkin Athens Palestine Lindale etc East Texas contains several award-winning lakes for sport fishing including Toledo Bend Reservoir Lake Sam Rayburn Lake Livingston Lake Fork Reservoir Lake Tawakoni etc East Texans have a long tradition in outdoors sporting and observe the opening day of deer season as a near religious holiday, Minute Maid Park The Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant and the Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant were built as part of the WWII buildup Hundreds of thousands of American (and some allied) soldiers sailors and airmen trained in the state All sectors of the economy boomed as the homefront prospered. !

! 7 Trade Houston Texas Business Directory, 9 Media Portuguese North America (in present-day Canada); Vaz Dourado c.1576, 135 Jon Rosenthal Democratic 2018 Jersey Village and southeastern segments of the Champions/FM 1960 area.