! ! ! Further information: List of newspapers in Houston List of television stations in Houston and List of radio stations in Houston. 3 References In the 16th century perhaps 240,000 Europeans entered American ports. By the late 16th century gold and silver imports from America provided one-fifth of Spain's total budget, Source: Fortune Juan Valiente was born West Africa and purchased by Portuguese traders from African slavers Around 1530 he was purchased by Alonso Valiente to be a slaved domestic servant in Puebla Mexico in 1533 Juan Valiente made a deal with his owner to allow him to be a conquistador for four years with the agreement that all earnings would come back to Alonso He fought for many years in Chile and Peru by 1540 he was a captain horseman and partner in Juan de Valdivia's company in Chile He was later awarded an estate in Santiago; a city he would help Valdivia found Both Alonso and Valiente tried to contact the other to make an agreement about Valiente's manumision and send Alonso his awarded money They were never able to reach each other and Valiente died in 1553 in the Battle of Tucapel. As of the 2015 Texas Population Estimate Program the population of the county was 4,530,268 non-Hispanic whites 1,323,437 (29.2%) Black Americans 817,096 (18.0%) Other non-Hispanic 395,206 (8.7%) Hispanics and Latinos (of any race) 1,994,529 (44.0%), Texas Consultation and the Matamoros Expedition 15 Further reading The Texians began their retreat on March 19 the pace was unhurried and after travelling only 4 miles (6.4 km) the group stopped for an hour to rest and allow the oxen to graze. Urrea's troops caught up to the Texians later that afternoon while Fannin and his force of about 300 men were crossing a prairie. Having learned from the fighting at Refugio Urrea was determined that the Texians would not reach the cover of timber approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) ahead along Coleto Creek as Mexican forces surrounded them the Texians formed a tight hollow square for defense. They repulsed three charges during this battle of Coleto resulting in about nine Texians killed and 51 wounded including Fannin Urrea lost 50 men with another 140 wounded Texians had little food no water and declining supplies of ammunition but voted to not try to break for the timber as they would have had to leave the wounded behind.
. . Two more significant tributaries of Buffalo Bayou flow through parts of Houston outside the Interstate 610 loop Greens Bayou which originates in far northwest Houston near Willowbrook flows for 43 miles (69 km) through Greenspoint and undeveloped areas of northeastern Harris County Sims Bayou which has its source near Missouri City southwest of Houston flows for 23 miles (37 km) past Almeda Sunnyside South Park and Manchester, 5.3 South America Main article: Battle of the Alamo. . When the Supreme Court ruled in 1923 that white primaries established by political parties were unconstitutional in 1927 the Texas state legislature passed a bill that authorized political parties to establish their internal practices the Democratic Party reinstated the white primary That law survived until 1944 before another Supreme Court case ruled that it was unconstitutional After 1944 the NAACP and other organizations worked to register black voters and participation increased But the major disenfranchisement continued until passage in the mid-1960s of civil rights legislation including the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to provide for federal oversight in areas in which historically minorities did not vote in expected numbers based on population, Texarkana Texas (36,411) acrylonitrile - cancer 316 Quanta Services. . .
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