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Fort Sam Houston
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...Fort Sam Houston, U.S. army base, 3,300 acres (1,335 hectares), S Tex...military post that was constructed from 1876 to 1890 and named for Gen. Sam Houston. The famous Brooke Army Medical Center, the major training center for......
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Houston
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......The civic center includes the Sam Houston Coliseum and Music Hall; the massive...luxury stores; Old Market Square; Sam Houston Historical Park, which contains...and A. C. Allen and named for Sam Houston, was promoted as a rival to Harrisburg......
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San Jacinto
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......Its chief tributary is Buffalo Bayou, and both the bayou and the lower river are used for the Houston ship channel. In 1836, Texans under Sam Houston surprised and defeated a larger force of Mexicans in the final and decisive battle of the Texas......
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Burnet, David Gouverneur
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......Texas) was not effective. He quarreled bitterly with Sam Houston and thereafter opposed him in politics. Burnet was vice president under Mirabeau B. Lamar, was defeated by Houston for the presidency in 1841, and was chosen in 1866......
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Jones, Anson
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......Texas congress, was appointed (1838) by President Sam Houston as minister to the United States, was dismissed (1839...His appointment as secretary of state in the second Houston administration (1841–44) prepared the way for his......
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Huntsville (cities, United States)
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......equipment, and lumber. Huntsville, the home of Samuel Houston, contains his grave (with an impressive monument...restored home, and other memorials. Also in the city are Sam Houston State Univ. and the headquarters of the Texas Department......
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Nacogdoches
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......Tourism is also important; within the vicinity is the huge Sam Rayburn Reservoir and many lakes. A Spanish mission was...Austin State Univ. is a Spanish presidio built in 1779. Sam Houston and Thomas J. Rusk lived there. Four signers of the Texas......
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Lamar, Mirabeau Buonaparte
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......including filibustering expeditions to New Mexico) disarranged the republic's finances. In 1841 he was replaced by Sam Houston. Lamar later came to favor annexation, served in the Mexican War, and was U.S. minister to Nicaragua and Costa Rica......
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Barker, Eugene Campbell
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......are a biography of Stephen F. Austin (1925, repr. 1968), Mexico and Texas 1821–1835 (1928, repr. 1965), and an edition (with Amelia W. Williams) of the writings of Sam Houston (8 vol., 1938–43, repr. 1969)....
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Maryville
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......automotive parts, and ski boats are also produced, and corn and tobacco are grown. Limestone quarries are nearby. Sam Houston went to Maryville in 1807; nearby is the log schoolhouse where he taught. Maryville College is in the city, and Great......