Atlas of Hispanic-American History

54 ATLAS OF HISPANIC-AMERICAN HISTORY AN AMAZING JOURNEY In 1527 Pánfilo de Narváez set off from Cuba to explore Florida. Believ ...

1692, led by Diego de Vargas Zapata Luján y Ponce de León, recapturing Santa Fe that year and reconquering the whole region by 1 ...

territorial claims to Louisiana, established a presence in what are now the states of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. The inter- na ...

SPAIN IN THE AMERICAS 57 TEXTILES OF SPANISH NEW MEXICO The fine art of Hispanic weaving is one of the oldest tra- ditional craf ...

Texas The Spanish explorers Cabeza de Vaca, Coronado, and Oñate all visited what is now Texas, but Spain showed no major interes ...

than 30 missions in Texas by the end of the 18th century. The most important of these was San Antonio in south-central Texas, fo ...

ary dispute in Texas between the French and the Spanish continued unabated through the colonial era and would play out in a diff ...

SPAIN IN THE AMERICAS 61 Despite having explored much of the Pacific coast in the 16th century, Spain made no effort to settle i ...

As in New Mexico and Texas, mis- sions were the advance guard of coloniza- tion. The Franciscan priest Junípero Serra (1713–1784 ...

I n the late 18th century, the United States became the first American colony to throw off European rule. It succeeded with the ...

Portugal and its overseas possessions in Philip II continued the wars against France and the Ottoman Empire and began new wars, ...

Saavedra, author of the novel Don Quixote de la Mancha; playwrights Lope de Vega Carpio and Calderón de la Barca; mystics St. Te ...

wanted to protect the security of its valu- able colonies in Mexico and the West Indies by increasing its holdings in North Amer ...

declared war in June 1779, Gálvez quick- ly organized a small force, including troops from Spain, Mexico, and Cuba. In a lightni ...

Spain. Captain Eugenio Pourré marched from the Spanish outpost of St. Louis (in what is now Missouri) and in February 1781 captu ...

Revolution (1789–1799). This cataclysmic upheaval, which temporarily abolished the French monarchy and led to decades of war, wa ...

a puppet of the powerful French leader Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821), who became first consul, or dictator, of France in 1799 a ...

military victories against the British in the Mississippi River valley during the war, Spain viewed as its own the land running ...

Napoleon installed Joseph Bonaparte as king of Spain. Across Spanish America, many colonials reacted with revulsion to the idea ...

and other agricultural products. Because of their strategic position in the Caribbean, they were well-defended by Spanish forces ...