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Approximately 1,000 Mexican reinforcements arrived on March 3 the following day a local woman likely Bowie's relative Juana Navarro Alsbury was rebuffed by Santa Anna when she attempted to negotiate a surrender for the Alamo defenders. This visit increased Santa Anna's impatience and he scheduled an assault for early on March 6. Many of his officers were against the plan; they preferred to wait until the artillery had further damaged the Alamo's walls and the defenders were forced to surrender. Santa Anna was convinced that a decisive victory would improve morale and sound a strong message to those still agitating in the interior and elsewhere in Texas, David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport a general aviation airport is located outside of the Tomball city limits in unincorporated northwest Harris County. Northcliffe Manor Houston Texas Business Directory Write-in Various candidates Various candidates 51,261 0.57% 0 January 11 1973: 2.0 inches (5.1 cm) of snow. Gulf of Mexico basin which contains the Sigsbee Deep and can be further divided into the continental rise the Sigsbee Abyssal Plain and the Mississippi Cone, School Trustee Pct 3 Pos 4 Louis D Evans III Republican, Houston Texas Business Directory; Poverty Waller-Harris ESD #200 Other Multiple Fire/EMS Agencies .0995, 8 External links On March 2 1836 Texans signed the Texas Declaration of Independence at Washington-on-the-Brazos effectively creating the Republic of Texas the revolt was justified as necessary to protect basic rights and because Mexico had annulled the federal pact the majority of the colonists were from the United States; they said that Mexico had invited them to move to the country but they were determined "to enjoy" the republican institutions to which they were accustomed in their native land, Rod Paige became superintendent of Houston Independent School District in 1994; during his seven-year tenure the district became very well known for high test scores and in 2001 Paige was asked to become Secretary of Education for the new George W Bush administration Lee P Brown Houston's first African-American mayor was elected in 1997. 3 History Muslim 1 Harris County ESD #20 Fire Northwest FD 1% .10, Houmont Park Hurricanes (114) 4.22 Cabral's voyage to Brazil and India 1500 Representatives Name Party First Elected Area(s) of Harris County Represented. Internal politics of the Republic were based on the conflict between two factions the nationalist faction led by Mirabeau B Lamar advocated the continued independence of Texas the expulsion of the Native Americans and the expansion of Texas to the Pacific Ocean Their opponents led by Sam Houston advocated the annexation of Texas to the United States and peaceful co-existence with Native Americans.

Although Santa Anna's troops had been thoroughly vanquished they did not represent the bulk of the Mexican army in Texas an additional 4,000 troops remained under the commands of Urrea and General Vicente Filisola. Texians had won the battle due to mistakes made by Santa Anna and Houston was well aware that his troops would have little hope of repeating their victory against Urrea or Filisola as darkness fell a large group of prisoners were led into camp Houston initially mistook the group for Mexican reinforcements and shouted out that all was lost. 14 References Houston is considered to be a politically divided city whose balance of power often sways between Republicans and Democrats Much of the city's wealthier areas vote Republican while the city's working class and minority areas vote Democratic According to the 2005 Houston Area Survey 68 percent of non-Hispanic whites in Harris County are declared or favor Republicans while 89 percent of non-Hispanic blacks in the area are declared or favor Democrats About 62 percent of Hispanics (of any race) in the area are declared or favor Democrats the city has often been known to be the most politically diverse city in Texas a state known for being generally conservative. As a result the city is often a contested area in statewide elections in 2009 Houston became the first U.S city with a population over 1 million citizens to elect a gay mayor by electing Annise Parker, Main article: Climate of Texas After Texas was readmitted to the Union on April 16 1870 Houston continued its growth Houston became a port of entry on July 16 1870 Its new charter drew up eight wards Many freed slaves opened businesses and worked under contracts the Freedmen's Bureau stopped abuse of the contracts in 1870 Many African Americans at the time were in unskilled labor Many former slaves legalized their marriages after the American Civil War White legislators insisted on segregated schools After white Democrats regained power in the state legislature in the late 1870s they began to pass laws to make voter registration more complicated with the effect of disfranchising African Americans the elections of 1876 were accompanied in many southern states with fraud and violence to suppress black voting As white Democrats secured their power they passed Jim Crow laws to establish and enforce legal segregation across the state.