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Spanish and Mexican California

 

Soldado de Cuera (Leather Coated Soldier) circa 1790

Image courtesy of the Army Art Collection, US Army Center of Military History

 

• Soldiers during the Spanish and Mexican Periods
  • Pedro de Alberni: Commander of Arms of California 1796-1801
  • José Dario Arguello: Presidio Comandante and Governor of Alta California, 1814-1815
  • Antonio Maria de Bucareli y Ursúa: Viceroy of New Spain, 1771-1779
  • Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo: Portuguese Discoverer Of California, 1542
  • José Antonio Castro Commandante-General and Acting Governor of Alta California
  • Alférez Pablo Antonio Cota, Santa Barbra Presidio 1788
  • Teodoro de Croix: Captain General on the Interior Provinces, 1776-1783
  • Juan Bautista de Anza: Colonizer of San Francisco, 1776
  • Pedro Fages: Military Governor of Alta California, 1770-1774 and 1782-1791
  • José de Gálvez: Visitor General of New Spain, 1765-1772
  • Felipe de Goicoechea: Comandante, Santa Bárbara 1784-1802
  • José de la Guerra y Noriega: Military Commander of Santa Barbara
  • Ignacio Martinez: Cadet, Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara 1799-1805
  • Manuel Micheltorena: Commandante-General and Governor of Alta California
  • Phelipe de Neve: First Governor of the Californias, 1777-1782
  • José Francisco Ortega: First Comandante Of the Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara, 1782-1784
  • Jose Antonio Romualdo Pacheco
  • Capitan Fernando de Rivera y Moncada: Military Governor of Alta California
  • José Velásquez: Alferéz, Presidio de San Diego
  • The Vallejo Family: A Military History of Early California
  • Josef de Zuniga: Comandante Of the Royal Presidio of San Diego, 1781-1792
  • The Founders of Santa Barbara: Who They Were and Whence They Came
  • Soldados de Cuera
    • Soldados de Cuera California Missions Studies Association
  • The Families of the Presidio de San Diego
• The Military Exploration and Settlement of California
  • Explorations and Conquest of California
  • San Diego and the Begining of the Spanish Period
  • Founding of the City of the Angels
  • Timeline of the Settlement of the Central Coast
  • Posts at Mission San Luis Rey de Francia
  • An Era of Expeditions
• Castillos, Presidios and Fuertes
  • Fort Point of Pines
  • The Presidios of Alta California
  • Fuerte de Laguna Chapala
  • Presidio and Mission of San Diego
  • Fort Guijarros
  • Posts at Monterey (El Real Presidio de San Carlos de Monterey, Fort Mervine, Ord Barracks, and The Presidio of Monterey)
  • Castillo de San Joaquin
  • Presidio of San Francisco
  • Presidios of the Line
  • Arms and Armament of the Presidios of California
• Colonial Life in Spanish California During the North American Revolution americanrevolution.org
• Hippolyte de Bouchard and His Attacks on the California Missions
• California Becomes a Province of the Mexican Empire
• The California Civil War
  • Battle of Cahuenga Pass
  • Battle of La Providencia: Second Battle of Cahuenga Pass
• The Spanish Navy in the Californias during the Revolutionary War Era
  • The Naval Department of San Blas: Spain's Supply and Shipbuilding Center for Alta California and the Pacific Northwest, 1770-1810
• Indian Wars during the Spanish and Mexican Periods
  • Miwok-Yokut Raids into Mexican California, 1830-1840
  • The Yuma Revolt, July 17, 1781

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