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, Within Harris County hospital services for the indigent and needy are provided by the Harris County Hospital District a separate governmental entity Harris County Hospital District operates three hospitals: LBJ General Hospital Quentin Mease Community Hospital and Ben Taub General Hospital as well as many clinics, the Pueblo from the upper Rio Grande region centered west of Texas; The First Congress of the Republic of Texas established Harrisburg County on December 22 1836 the original county boundaries included Galveston Island but were redrawn to its current configuration in May 1838.
Houston Texas Business Directory 1900 3,048,710 36.4%; 130 Tom Oliverson Republican 2016 Northwest Harris County (including Cypress Tomball Waller) They went about with a firebrand setting fire to the plains and timber so as to drive off the mosquitos and also to get lizards and similar things which they eat to come out of the soil in the same manner they kill deer encircling them with fires and they do it also to deprive the animals of pasture compelling them to go for food where the Indians want.
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