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The Battle of Lipantitlán was fought along the Nueces River on November 4, 1835, between the Mexican Army and Texian insurgents, as part of the Texas Revolution. After the Texian victory at the Battle of Goliad, only two Mexican garrisons remained in Texas, Fort Lipantitlán near San Patricio and the Alamo Mission at San Antonio de Béxar. The commander of Fort Lipantitlán, Nicolás Rodríguez, had been ordered to harass the Texian troops at Goliad. Rodríguez took the bulk of his men on an expedition; while they were gone, Texian Captain Ira Westover's force arrived in San Patricio. On November 3, a local man persuaded the Mexican garrison to surrender, and the following day the Texians dismantled the fort. Rodríguez returned as the Texians were crossing the swollen Nueces River to return to Goliad. The Mexican soldiers attacked, but the longer range of the Texians' rifles soon forced them to retreat. The Texians now had full control of the Texas Gulf Coast, which meant that the troops stationed at San Antonio de Béxar could receive reinforcements and supplies only overland. Historian Bill Groneman believes that this contributed to the eventual Mexican defeat at the siege of Béxar, which expelled all Mexican troops from Texas. (more...) Recently featured: L'ange de Nisida – Deinosuchus – 1991 Perfect Storm Archive – By email – More featured articles...
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November 4: Flag Day in Panama; Unity Day in Russia 1889 – Menelik II (pictured), who would later introduce several technological and administrative advances under his reign, was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia. 1921 – After a speech by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus in Munich, members of the Sturmabteilung, known as "brownshirts", physically assaulted his opposition, an event which assumed legendary proportions over time. 1960 – At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observed a chimpanzee using a grass stalk to extract termites from a termite hill, the first recorded case of tool use by animals. 1966 – The River Arno flooded Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7 m (22 ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books. 1970 – Authorities in Temple City, California, discovered a 13-year-old feral child known as "Genie", who had spent almost her entire life in social isolation. More anniversaries: November 3 – November 4 – November 5 Archive – By email – List of historical anniversaries It is now November 4, 2011 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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Sir Puttanna Chetty Town Hall is a Greco-Roman municipal building in Bangalore, India, named after the philanthropist and former president of Bangalore, Sir K. P. Puttanna Chetty. Built by Sir Mirza Ismail in 1935, it underwent reconstruction in 1990 at a cost of 6.5 million.

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