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. YES Prep North Central of YES Prep Public Schools. (136) 7.08 The city of Houston was founded by land speculators on August 30 1836 at the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou (a point now known as Allen's Landing) and incorporated as a city on June 5 1837 the city is named after former General Sam Houston who was president of the Republic of Texas and had won Texas' independence from Mexico at the Battle of San Jacinto 25 miles (40 km) east of Allen's Landing. After briefly serving as the capital of the Texas Republic in the late 1830s Houston grew steadily into a regional trading center for the remainder of the 19th century; . . Lumber became a large part of the port's exports with merchandise as its chief import the Houston Post was established in 1880 the Houston Chronicle followed on August 23 of that year Former U S President Ulysses Grant came to Houston to celebrate the opening of the Union Station which had rail links with New Orleans Fifth Ward residents threatened to secede from Houston because they felt they already had been separated an iron drawbridge built in 1883 pacified them and they did not secede in 1887 the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word established a hospital that would become St Joseph Hospital, Houston (county seat) (small parts in Fort Bend and Montgomery counties). . Throughout the 15th century Portuguese explorers sailed the coast of Africa establishing trading posts for tradable commodities such as firearms spices silver gold and slaves crossing Africa and India in 1434 the first consignment of slaves was brought to Lisbon; slave trading was the most profitable branch of Portuguese commerce until the Indian subcontinent was reached.

Despite considerable losses in early 1942 Germany and its allies stopped a major Soviet offensive in central and southern Russia keeping most territorial gains they had achieved during the previous year in May the Germans defeated Soviet offensives in the Kerch Peninsula and at Kharkov and then launched their main summer offensive against southern Russia in June 1942 to seize the oil fields of the Caucasus and occupy Kuban steppe while maintaining positions on the northern and central areas of the front the Germans split Army Group South into two groups: Army Group a advanced to the lower Don River and struck south-east to the Caucasus while Army Group B headed towards the Volga River the Soviets decided to make their stand at Stalingrad on the Volga; 6.1 Taxation Extreme weather Disease in the Americas 12.4 Economic and demographic change The following year the War of the Quadruple Alliance pitted Spain against France which immediately moved to take over Spanish interests in North America in June 1719 seven Frenchmen from Natchitoches took control of the mission San Miguel de los Adaes from its sole defender who did not know that the countries were at war the French soldiers explained that 100 additional soldiers were coming and the Spanish colonists missionaries and remaining soldiers fled to San Antonio. Main article: John F Kennedy Assassination European young men enlisted in the army because it was one way out of poverty Catholic priests instructed the soldiers in mathematics writing theology Latin Greek and history and wrote letters and official documents for them King's army officers taught military arts an uneducated young recruit could become a military leader elected by their fellow professional soldiers perhaps based on merit Others were born into hidalgo families and as such they were members of the Spanish nobility with some studies but without economic resources Even some rich nobility families' members became soldiers or missionaries but mostly not the firstborn heirs! ; Additionally numerous private and public hospitals operate in Harris County including institutions in Texas Medical Center and throughout the county for example the Harris County Psychiatric Center, Other black conquistadors include Pedro Fulupo Juan Bardales Antonio Perez and Juan Portugues Pedro Fulupo was a black slave that fought in Costa Rica Juan Bardales was an African slave that fought in Honduras and Panama for his service he was granted manumission and a pension of 50-pesos Antonio Perez was from North Africa and a free black He joined the conquest in Venezuela and was made a captain Juan Portugues fought in the conquests in Venezuela.