Juan N. Seguin was a man that will be remembered by history for being a heroic Tejano, and this is his story. Juan N. Seguin - Juan Nepomuceno Seguin was born on October 27, 1806, in San Antonio de Bexar, Province of Texas, Viceroyalty of New Spain, to Juan José María Erasmo Seguin and Maria Josefa Becerra. In Juan’s life, Juan begun his long career of public service at a young age. Juan helped run and manage his mother’s post office while his father served in the Mexican congress. Juan’s father was the postmaster of early San Antonio.…
Texas is a vastly populated state in the United State and many types of culture, race, and religion grow within the state. There has been many important events and fascinating history that has occured on the Texas soil. Many great Americans had contributed into establishing a tremendous state while making history. Therefore, while there are numerous amount of significant heroes and contributors, José Antonio Navarro had demonstrated an achievement for the state of Texas, which constructed the culture and view of the state of Texas differently for the future generation.…
All missions were sold to private parties, and the san Miguel mission was purchased by Petronillo Rios and William Reed, two business partners. They opened the buildings as inns for travelers.…
Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares or simply known as Father Antonio de Olivares, was a Spanish Franciscan who among others, founded the famous mission of San Antonio de Valero, also known as "The Alamo" in 1718. Father Antonio de Olivareswas born in 1630 in Spain. On September 8, 1720, after suffering a broken leg and worse health, Olivares retired from MissionValero and eventually died when he was 92 years of age in 1722. In 1709, he participated in the expedition headed by Pedro deAguirre, together with other Franciscans, exploring the area now known as the San Antonio city, until the Colorado River. In that same year, with the objective of establishing new missions to the bank of the San Antonio River, he travelled to Spain and remained there for six years, trying to persuade and convince the Spanish to approve his plan.…
In the beginning of the book I Juan DE Pareja a boy who lost his mother at a young age is working of the mistrust of the house and is kept and fed well until one day a disease came and killed off most of the slaves and as Juan is laying there dying a man comes and say that you are blessed because god decided to save him and that he is lucky to be alive. This same man also helps get back his strength until a named Don Carmelo come to take him to his new master and a city called Madrid which would be a very long journey especially when you have to beg and find your own supply of food and the Juan does this Don Carmelo has him to bring him a loaf of bread each morning which makes it harder for Juan to find food but then one jun decides to run…
Firstname Lastname Instructor’s Name Course Number 14 September 2015 The Battle of the Alamo The Alamo is the name given to an eighteenth century mission located in modern days San Antonio, Texas. Originally designed as a roman-catholic mission, the Alamo also served as a fortified structure whose original purpose was to withstand attacks by native American tribes.…
In the early fifteen hundred’s a Spanish expedition was sent on a mission to conquer Mexico, and consisted of approximately a dozen ships. Hernán Cortés was one of the most accomplished of the conquistadors in the sixteenth century, and also known throughout the world as the man who defeated the Aztec Empire. By overthrowing the Aztec Empire and their emperor, Moctezuma, Cortes conquered Mexico. Hernán Cortés was eternally known as a man who was rather bold and valiant in his leadership of his soldiers.…
The Dominguez-Escalante Expedition was historically important because these men were the first people, not Indians, to explore much of Utah gaining information on the people that they met and the land itself. The Dominguez-Escalante Journal it the accounting of the expedition traveling thru Arizona, Colorado, and Utah. Father Dominguez and Father Escalante’s party included “twelve Spanish colonials and two Indians”. The Mexican Government enlisted a catholic priest, Francisco Dominguez to find a better way to get to the Catholic Missions in Monterey California from Santa Fe New Mexico. Father Dominguez asked Father Silvestre de Escalante to write in detail about this journey.…
The Jumano stay in Puebloan-like villages with the Rio Grande to the north and south of them, which is known as El Paso, today. The houses they lived in are called “Pueblos” and that's why the villages are called Puebloan. They built their houses out of large adobe bricks, or dried-up mud that they turned into bricks. Explorer Espejo found one of the Jumanos village at the mouth of the Concho River in 1582 and he called it La Junta, it was a big abundance of several Jumano villages next to each other. The Spanish called the indians of La Junta, “Patarabuays.”…
Monte Albán is a huge pre-Columbian archaeological place in the Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán Municipality in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. The site is located in a small mountainous area increasing higher the field in the central section of the Vale of Oaxaca where the end northern Ella, eastern Tlacolula, and southern Zimatlán & Ocotlán parts meet. The currently-day state capital Oaxaca City has located roughly 6 miles east of Monte Albán. Beyond being one of the newest towns of Mesoamerica, Monte Albán's interest also stems from its function as the pre-eminent Zapotec socio-political and marked economic ring for near to a thousandfold years. Being noticeable from anyplace in the middle portion of the Valley of Oaxaca, the impressive vestiges…
It is estimated that Cortez was the cause of 240,000 Aztec deaths, not including the deaths of those who died because of smallpox. Before Cortez arrived the native population was believed to be around 25 to 30 million, 50 years after Cortez the native population was reduced to 3 million, mainly due to diseases. The Europeans also brought their religion, Christianity, to the New World. In 1769, Spanish missionaries founded at San Diego the first of a chain of 21 missions that wound up the coast as far as Sonoma. These missions essentially were built to force…
Before the missions came to exist the land which is today known as California had already…
Located near the southeast of the Gulf of Mexico, Central America and north of South America, the Caribbean has over 7000 islands, all sharing different benefits. The fifth best island in this huge archipelago is the largest island called Nevusa. Nevusa has an area of approximately 7,000 square miles. It has a vast amount of wildlife, ideal for hunting, with three convenient ports around the island.…
Every destination has traditions that make exploring them an experience that takes us out of the ordinary and into the culture and history of faraway places. In the Galapagos, one of these is crossing the equator at sea during a cruise. Keep reading for more about this coming of age event that dates back to the times of whalers and pirates. pirates.…
I wanted to tell you about my voyage that I took to the Galápagos Islands that took about 5 years to take. In the Galápagos Islands I found many different species of birds that are called the finches. Every finch that I found looked the same but the shape and size of the beak were a little different. When I visited South America I found armadillo fossils, and these fossils were really big and kind of looked the same, but a little different to the armadillos alive walking around.…