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The Shamrock was a hotel constructed between 1946 and 1949 by wildcatter Glenn McCarthy southwest of downtown Houston, Texas next to the Texas Medical Center. It was the largest hotel built in the United States during the 1940s. [1] The grand opening of the Shamrock is still cited as one of the biggest social events ever held in Houston. [2]
Texas Army: Josephus S. Irvine 0 Loss [57] [58] 1862 Battle of Nueces (massacre) 33rd Texas Cavalry, Texas Army: Colin D. McRae 2 KIA, 18 WIA Victory/atrocity [59] [60] 1862 Battle of Corpus Christi: Texas Militia: Alfred M. Hobby / Charles G. Lovenskiold 1 KIA, 1 WIA Victory [61] 1862 First Battle of Galveston: 26th Texas Cavalry, Texas Army ...
The privately owned property was denied a tax exemption causing the Houston Light Guard Association a financial burden for over the years before being transferred to the Texas National Guard in 1938, making it the first state owned armory in Texas. [3] In 1991 the Houston Light Guards moved to Ellington Field [8] and the property was purchased ...
Map -- Camp Logan (circa, 1917) Map 24th infantry camp; Houston, Texas, showing bullet holes in vicinity (circa 1917) Map of Buffalo Bayou area - Camp Logan Riots (circa 1917) Camp Logan was a World War I –era army training camp in Houston , Texas , named after U.S. Senator and Civil War General John A. Logan . [ 1 ]
Since 2009, several Houston's locations around the US have changed their names to Hillstone. The company maintains the changes are in keeping with a long-term strategy of disassociating from the chain image to remain a niche player in the industry. The practice of changing restaurant names is not a new strategy for the company, which has similarly converted severa
The US Army has set aside the convictions of 110 Black soldiers charged after the World War I-era Houston riots, with the aim of correcting their decades-old records and characterizing their ...
In response, Governor Oscar Colquitt sent Texas militia, consisting of two companies of the Third Texas Infantry from Corpus Christi and Houston and two companies of cavalry. They remained until June 1913. [1] The situation got worse, with American citizens being executed in Mexico and various factions conducting cross-border raids into Texas.
The 124th Cavalry Regiment (nicknamed "Mars Men") [1] is a United States Army cavalry regiment, represented in the Texas Army National Guard by 1st Squadron, 124th Cavalry, part of the 56th Infantry Brigade Combat Team at Waco. The 124th was originally constituted and organized in 1929 in the Texas National Guard.