At the end of the British mandate on Palestine which gave Israel its legitimacy, Israel was declared an independent state in May 15th, 1948. Answer Israel was established by G-d.
A decade later in the Spring of 1858, they briefly saw combat again when they were sent north to the Red River to settle a band of Comanche Indians. After Texas seceded from the United States during the Civil War in 1861, an organization was created in Houston, called Terry's Texas Rangers.
But several producing oil wells were drilled in 1895 by Joseph S. Cullinan, who later helped found the Texas Company, which became Texaco. The first well-equipped refinery in Texas was built at this field, and despite the early efforts at Nacogdoches, it is usually called Texas' first refinery.