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Sep 14, 2011 · 1. Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra Marker. Inscription. Captain in the Spanish Royal Navy. Explorer of the West Coast of North America and Governor of the Spanish settlement at Nootka, Vancouver Island. In honor of their meeting and the ensuing friendly association, Captain George Vancouver named this land Quadra and Vancouver’s Island.
I. E. Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra. 3,588 likes · 8 talking about this. RESEÑA HISTORICA
Capitán de Navío Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra was the most important Spanish naval officer on the Northwest Coast in the eighteenth century. Serving from 1774 to 1794, he participated in the search for the Northwest Passage and, with George Vancouver, endeavoured to forge a diplomatic resolution to the Nootka Sound controversy between Spain and Britain.
Sep 27, 2015 · En 1779, Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra tomó posesión para España de las costas de California, Oregón y Washington. También ocupó Alaska y la isla de Vancouver.Te contamos su historia.
Jan 12, 2023 · In 1792, when the United States was in its infancy and the Spanish empire still claimed the American continents’ entire Pacific coast, a Spanish naval officer named Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra sailed from his base at San Blas, Mexico, to the Nootka Peninsula, on the west coast of present-day Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Biographie. Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, né le 3 juin 1743 à Lima au Pérou et mort le 26 mars 1794 à Mexico au Mexique, est un officier de marine espagnol et un explorateur employé par l'empire espagnol. Depuis sa base située à San Blas, aujourd'hui dans l'État mexicain de Nayarit, Bodega y Quadra fit plusieurs voyages dans le ...
Oct 12, 2017 · Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra. Wikimedia Commons. Revillagigedo, Bodega, and his companions reached Veracruz on August 8, 1789. Shortly after arriving, Revillagigedo received a letter from former viceroy Flores informing him that Martinez at Nootka Sound had seized two English ships, the Argonaut and the Princess Royal. Flores added that ...
