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Afonso De Albuquerque Set Sail In April 1511 From Goa To Malacca With A Force Of 1,200 Men And Seventeen Or Eighteen Ships. Following His Capture Of The City On 24 August 1511 It Became A Strategic Base For Portuguese Expansion In The East Indies; Consequently The Portuguese Were Obliged To Build A Fort They Named A Famosa To Defend It That Same Year The Portuguese Desiring A Commercial Alliance Sent An Ambassador Duarte Fernandes To The Kingdom Of Ayudhya Where He Was Well Received By King Ramathibodi II In 1526 A Large Force Of Portuguese Ships Under The Command Of Pedro Mascarenhas Was Sent To Conquer Bintan Where Sultan Mahmud Was Based Earlier Expeditions By Diogo Dias And Afonso De Albuquerque Had Explored That Part Of The Indian Ocean And Discovered Several Islands New To Europeans Mascarenhas Served As Captain-Major Of The Portuguese Colony Of Malacca From 1525 To 1526 And As Viceroy Of Goa Capital Of The Portuguese Possessions In Asia From 1554 Until His Death In 1555 He Was Succeeded By Francisco Barreto Who Served With The Title Of "governor-general"
Northeast Gulf of Mexico which extends from a point east of the Mississippi River Delta near Biloxi to the eastern side of Apalachee Bay. ! Deep East Texas is a sub-region of East Texas According to the Deep East Texas Council of Governments the region consists of the following twelve counties: Angelina Houston Jasper Nacogdoches Newton Polk Sabine San Augustine San Jacinto Shelby Trinity and Tyler. ; A gambrel-roofed house with large windows gracious wrap-around balcony and first floor porch with Grecian columns Sashed windows are framed by shutters.
This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (July 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message). Red Army artillery unit during the Battle of Lake Khasan 1938 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. . 2 1900s 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, East Texans also enjoy collegiate athletic competition Most residents support collegiate teams located in other regions of the state; the Texas A&M Aggies Texas Longhorns Texas Tech Red Raiders Baylor Bears TCU Horned Frogs etc Due to proximity to neighboring states East Texas has a substantial number of fans of the LSU Tigers Arkansas Razorbacks Oklahoma State Cowboys and Oklahoma Sooners the Battle of the Piney Woods is a fiercely contested sports rivalry between the Bearkats of Sam Houston State University in Huntsville and the Lumberjacks of Stephen F Austin State University in Nacogdoches Both compete in the FCS level of NCAA athletic competition as members of the Southland Conference the Cardinals of Lamar University in Beaumont also compete with Stephen F Austin and Sam Houston State in the Southland Conference, 2015 Texas Population Estimate Program 6 Further reading Main article: Sports in Houston. !
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