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  1. Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra (22 May 1743 – 26 March 1794) was a Spanish Criollo naval officer operating in the Americas. Assigned to the Pacific coast Spanish Naval Department base at San Blas, in Viceroyalty of New Spain (present day Mexico), he explored the Northwest Coast of North America as far north as present day Alaska.

    • 1763–1793
  2. Apr 14, 2004 · To adapt it for the churning waves, unforgiving winds, rocky shoals, and strong currents of the northern Pacific sea, it was thoroughly refitted and careened in San Blas prior to the expedition under the watchful eyes of its commanders, Juan de Ayala and Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra (1743-1794).

  3. Biografía del marino, cartógrafo, etnólogo y naturalista peruano-mexicano, que participó en la Guerra de los Siete Años y la Guerra de la Independencia. Conoce su trayectoria naval, sus viajes, sus obras y su legado histórico.

  4. Jan 12, 2023 · In 1792 Spanish-Peruvian naval officer Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra sailed up the coast of North America to meet with George Vancouver and the leaders of the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island. His journal is in the Manuscript Division.

  5. BODEGA Y QUADRA (Cuadra), JUAN FRANCISCO DE LA, naval officer, explorer, and diplomat; baptized 3 June 1743 in Lima, Peru, son of Tomás de la Bodega y de las Llanas, a Spanish-born deputy of the Spanish consulate in Cuzco, and Francisca de Mollinedo y Losada, descendant of a prominent Peruvian family; d. 26 March 1794 in Mexico City. Juan ...

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  7. Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra (b. 22 August 1737; d. 26 March 1794), Spanish naval officer, explorer of the Pacific Northwest. Born in Lima, Peru, Bodega became a Spanish naval officer and was posted to the department of San Blas in 1774.

  8. Feb 6, 2006 · Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, naval officer, explorer, administrator (bap at Lima, Peru 3 June 1743; d at Mexico City 26 Mar 1794). In 1775 he made a difficult voyage of exploration from San Blas, Mexico, to 58° 30´ N and Bucareli Sound, Alaska.

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