5 Portuguese exploration Houston ISD, Lady Bird Taylor Johnson around age three in East Texas, Symbols German immigrants started arriving in Texas and Houston after the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states Many were educated and arrived with capital to set up businesses or buy farms the port in Houston was getting some shipping business but the shallowness of the water hampered massive shipping During the 1850s the Houstonians decided to build a rail system to connect their port with rail links Eleven companies built 451 miles of track before 1860 Mexicans who were one of the earliest immigrant groups to Houston worked as railroad builders and stayed in the area.[citation needed]. Two commercial airports George Bush Intercontinental Airport and William P Hobby Airport are located in Houston and in Harris County the Houston Airport System defines Harris County as a part of Bush Intercontinental's service region the city of Houston operates Ellington Field a general aviation and military airport in Harris County. Contents Stafford In July 1937 Japan captured the former Chinese imperial capital of Peking after instigating the Marco Polo Bridge Incident which culminated in the Japanese campaign to invade all of China the Soviets quickly signed a non-aggression pact with China to lend materiel support effectively ending China's prior co-operation with Germany From September to November the Japanese attacked Taiyuan engaged the Kuomintang Army around Xinkou and fought Communist forces in Pingxingguan. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek deployed his best army to defend Shanghai but after three months of fighting Shanghai fell the Japanese continued to push the Chinese forces back capturing the capital Nanking in December 1937 After the fall of Nanking tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants were murdered by the Japanese. 438 Apache Corporation U.S Decennial Census See also: List of films set in Houston.
! . ; A Portuguese caravel Main article: Sports in Houston Main articles: History of Houston and Timeline of Houston, As early as October 27 Mexican president Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna had been preparing to quell the unrest in Texas in early 1836 Santa Anna personally led a 6,000-man force toward Texas His force was large but ill-trained. Santa Anna led the bulk of the troops to San Antonio de Bexar to besiege the Alamo Mission while General Jose de Urrea led the remaining troops up the coast of Texas. Urrea's forces soon defeated all the Texian resistance along the coast culminating in the Goliad Massacre where they executed 300 Texian prisoners of war. After a thirteen-day siege Santa Anna's forces overwhelmed the nearly 200 Texians defending the Alamo and killed the prisoners "Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!" became a battle cry of the Texas Revolution. ! .
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