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Pedro Fages (1734–1794) was a Spanish soldier, explorer, first Lieutenant Governor of the province of the Californias under Gaspar de Portolá. Fages claimed the governorship after Portolá's departure, acting as governor in opposition to the official governor Felipe de Barri , and later served officially as fifth (1782–91) Governor of the ...
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Pedro Fages first came to California in 1769, arriving in San Diego Bay as part of an advance party of Gaspar de Portola's famous expedition. He became Military Governor of Alta California, 1770-1774 and 1782-1791. Fages led an expedition along the edge of the western Mojave along the northern foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains looking for ...
Military Governor of Alta California, 1770-1774 and 1782-1791. Pedro Fages, a native of Catalonia, was promoted to lieutenant in 1767, placing him second in command of the newly formed Free Company of Catalonian volunteers at the age of 33. Fages left Cádiz, Spain, in 1767 to fight Indians in Sonora.
The expedition of 1770 was undertaken independently of the viceroy’s order of November 12 of the same year, requiring that the port of the bay of San Francisco should be explored (that order did not reach Monterey until May 21, 1771),2 and appears to have been made at Fages’s own initiative. It seems strange that, in their diaries of the ...
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Jul 7, 2017 · Images. An illustration of a heart shape Donate An illustration of text ellipses. ... diary of Pedro Fages by Fages, Pedro; Bolton, Herbert Eugene, 1870-1953 ...
