11.1 Roadways Water bodies, By the end of April 1942 Japan and its ally Thailand had almost fully conquered Burma Malaya the Dutch East Indies Singapore and Rabaul inflicting severe losses on Allied troops and taking a large number of prisoners. Despite stubborn resistance by Filipino and US forces the Philippine Commonwealth was eventually captured in May 1942 forcing its government into exile on 16 April in Burma 7,000 British soldiers were encircled by the Japanese 33rd Division during the Battle of Yenangyaung and rescued by the Chinese 38th Division. Japanese forces also achieved naval victories in the South China Sea Java Sea and Indian Ocean and bombed the Allied naval base at Darwin Australia in January 1942 the only Allied success against Japan was a Chinese victory at Changsha. These easy victories over unprepared US and European opponents left Japan overconfident as well as overextended! . 7.3.1 Brutus oil spill U.S Decennial Census Texas eventually adopted much of the Anglo-American legal system but some Spanish legal practices were retained including homestead exemption community property and adoption! .
1960s Harris County Annex M has the headquarters of the Harris County Transit agency, Political history 2.3 1930s 5.2 Maritime boundary delimitation agreements. . Cities After the fort was constructed one of the ships returned to France and the other two were soon destroyed in storms stranding the settlers La Salle and his men searched overland for the Mississippi River traveling as far west as the Rio Grande and as far east as the Trinity River. Disease and hardship laid waste to the colony and by early January 1687 fewer than 45 people remained That month a third expedition launched a final attempt to find the Mississippi the expedition experienced much infighting and La Salle was ambushed and killed somewhere in East Texas, 1900 63,786 71.2% 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, Ben Westhoff author of Dirty South: Outkast Lil Wayne Soulja Boy and the Southern Rappers who Reinvented Hip-Hop said that Houston is geographically isolated from other cities that have rap music traditions so Houston rap music has its own slang and sound which does not "translate" in other regions Many DJs like to severely slow down music and repeat lines several times a style known as "chopped and screwed." the originator of "Chopped and Screwed" style music was the late Dj Screw Screw began making this type of music while under the influence of promethazine with codeine cough syrup the drinking of which is now heavily popularized in hip-hop culture Westhoff says that the style which slurs the speeches of the rappers gives the music an "extraterrestrial quality." Bounce music also became popular in Houston in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Mestre Jacome was a Majorcan cartographer induced by Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator to move to Portugal in the 1420s to train Portuguese map-makers in Majorcan-style cartography. 'Jacome of Majorca' is even sometimes described as the head of Henry's observatory and "school" at Sagres, Cycling As of April 2013 the state's unemployment rate is 6.4 percent. . . Southeast Texas includes part of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and most of the Texas portion of the Intracoastal Waterway the area is also crossed by numerous rivers and streams the largest three being the Sabine River the Neches River and the Trinity River in Southeast Texas and the rest of the South small rivers and creeks collect into swamps called "bayous" and merge with the surrounding forest the only large bodies of water in Southeast Texas are Galveston Bay and Sabine Lake but the large reservoirs of East Texas are just to the North the southeastern portion of Texas also is geographically and culturally attached to Southwest Louisiana.
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