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Cos Received 650 Reinforcements On December 8 But To His Dismay Most Of Them Were Raw Recruits Including Many Convicts Still In Chains. Instead Of Being Helpful The Reinforcements Were Mainly A Drain On The Dwindling Food Supplies. Seeing Few Other Options On December 9 Cos And The Bulk Of His Men Withdrew Into The Alamo Mission On The Outskirts Of B�xar Cos Presented A Plan For A Counterattack; Cavalry Officers Believed That They Would Be Surrounded By Texians And Refused Their Orders. Possibly 175 Soldiers From Four Of The Cavalry Companies Left The Mission And Rode South; Mexican Officers Later Claimed The Men Misunderstood Their Orders And Were Not Deserting The Following Morning Cos Surrendered. Under The Terms Of The Surrender Cos And His Men Would Leave Texas And No Longer Fight Against Supporters Of The Constitution Of 1824. With His Departure There Was No Longer An Organized Garrison Of Mexican Troops In Texas And Many Of The Texians Believed That The War Was Over. Burleson Resigned His Leadership Of The Army On December 15 And Returned To His Home Many Of The Men Did Likewise And Johnson Assumed Command Of The 400 Soldiers Who Remained
In January 2010 Annise Parker became the first openly gay mayor of a large American city upon her inauguration as Houston's mayor. .
. The Hobby Center, The Texas Department of Criminal Justice operates some correctional facilities in Harris County including:, The 2003 Texas redistricting of Congressional districts led by Republican Tom DeLay was called by the New York Times "an extreme case of partisan gerrymandering" a group of Democratic legislators the "Texas Eleven" fled the state in a quorum-busting effort to prevent the legislature from acting but was unsuccessful the state had already redistricted following the 2000 census Despite these efforts the legislature passed a map heavily in favor of Republicans based on 2000 data and ignoring the estimated nearly one million new residents in the state since that date Career attorneys and analysts at the Department of Justice objected to the plan as diluting the votes of African American and Hispanic voters but political appointees overrode them and approved it. Legal challenges to the redistricting reached the national Supreme Court in the case League of United Latin American Citizens v Perry (2006) but the court ruled in favor of the state (and Republicans).
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