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Venus chasers of the 18th century
Posted June 7, 2012
Mexican town shares a history with B.C.'s west coast
Posted March 27, 2012
From Times Colonist
The age-and smoke-grimed stone walls of Nuestra Senora del Rosario la Marinera stand silent in a small jungle clearing just below the summit of San Basilio Hill, on the outskirts of San Blas. The cathedral-sized church displays no stained-glass window…
Mexican Revolution.
Posted December 1, 2011
On November 20, 2010 Mexico celebrated the Centennial Anniversary of its Revolution. On this date, in the year 1910 the revolutionary war to overthrow the dictator Porfirio Díaz, began.
General Porfirio Díaz had been an important military figure during the wars against the foreign invaders, and had…
Spanish Explored Alaska in late 1700s
Posted July 29, 2011
Sit News - Ketchikan, Alaska
By DAVE KIFFER
"Little was done on the Pacific side of North America for more than two centuries. Finally toward the middle of the 1700s, Spain at last began to colonize the coast. The small west coast – now Mexican - village of San Blas – about 100 miles north of Puerto …
Comprehensive History, Search for the Camino Real, Published by Outskirts Press
Posted May 18, 2011
Comprehensive History, Search for the Camino Real, Published by ...
Search for the Camino Real is based on five years of extensive scholarly and field research by author Richter, and the book highlights the importance of the colonial road in Mexico’s national history as well as San Blas’ own role i…
Search for the Camino Real
Posted January 21, 2011
New Travelogue and Historical Study: Search for the Camino Real ...
PRLog.Org
Both historical investigation and travelogue, this documented study of the end of the Camino Real and San Blas, Mexico, is woven into the author’s personal account of the search for remnants of Mexico’s colonial road in th…
Cruising in the wake of Don Pedro Alberni
Posted January 13, 2011
Cruising in the wake of Don Pedro Alberni
Victoria Times Colonist
There was a time in the 1700s when the now- bustling tourists meccas of Puerto Vallarta and Acapulco were minor players, when San Blas was one of the main ports of call for the Spanish convoys carrying silver and other treasures from t…
Map and History of the beaches of Colima, Jalisco and Nayarit, Mexico
Posted October 4, 2010
Map of the beaches of Colima, Jalisco and Nayarit, Mexico | Geo ...
By admin
We described the historical geography of San Blas in a previous post: The Bells of San Blas, the historical geography of a port in Nayarit, Mexico. ...READ ON
He Lived in Interesting Times
Posted July 7, 2010
He Lived in Interesting Times
San Diego Reader
José María Echeandia, political and military governor of Alta and Lower California.
When Mexico won its bloody independence from Spain, he commanded a company. ... The voyage from San Blas to Loreto was such an ordeal, into prevailing winds and e…
Florence Lowe Pancho Barnes
Posted June 9, 2010
Tomboy Style: ICON | Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes
By Lizzie
In San Blas, Mexico, she jumped ship with a fellow crewmember and began to roam the Mexican countryside with him on a donkey's back—reminding her male companion of the character he erroneously called "Pancho", this is when Florence ..…
ROUTE FROM PHILIPPINES BACK TO MEXICO FINALLY FOUND!
Posted June 8, 2010
June 1, 1565. Andrés de Urdaneta sets sail from the Philippine Islands on what eventually becomes recognized as a landmark voyage in sailing history. His return to New Spain, by sailing across the Pacific Ocean from west to east, is the earliest documented successful voyage in this direction. His ac…
Prosperity turns to hard times
Posted June 6, 2010
| Prosperity turns to hard times Lompoc Record Simon Bolivar, the so-called George Washington of South America, was loyal to the Spanish crown and untroubled by the insurgents in the beginning. Soon, however, the supply ships from San Blas, in Mexico, stopped coming, or came very rarely, and the sold… |
Missions survived on trade
Posted April 16, 2010
.......This was very difficult for the Californians, as the Spanish ships from San Blas, Mexico, came up the coast just once a year, and trade was very important to them. The missions, including La Purisima, could produce necessities for their people, but needed the ships for such items as iron goo…
The Bear Flag Republic In California
Posted April 5, 2010
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SemperFidelisNoah Most Europeans expected the United States to lose the Mexican War. The Mexican army was about four times the size of the U.S. Army, and the last time the United States had attempted an invasion of a foreign country-Canada in 1812-it had failed miserably. |
San Blas, Mexico, to the northwest coast of North America.
Posted March 19, 2010
| Most of the "USA" is "Hispanic" territory Amer Revolt By Usenet Perez was appointed in 1774 to command the frigate Santiago in an expedition sailing from San Blas,Mexico, to the northwest coast of North America. Continuing south, he sailed by the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca without .… |
'Sacred Expedition' founds Mission
Posted February 21, 2010
| 'Sacred Expedition' founds Mission Lompoc Record Spanish ships from San Blas came only once a year, which was not enough for the needs of La Purisima Mission, but many foreign ships arrived, especially the ... |
Spain in the Revolution
Posted January 28, 2010
Spain in the Revolution « Barbaryalan's Blog
By Barbary Alan
Since 1768, Spain had a major port and shipbuilding center at San Blas on the west coast of Mexico in addition to Acapulco. More than 20 ships plus treasure galleons operated on a regular schedule supplying Pacific Coast missions, ..…
San Blas Longfellow Connection
Posted January 5, 2010
A travel article about abandoned church bells in San Blas, a village just below the Tropic of Cancer on Mexico's Pacific Coast, inspired Longfellow to write a poem, his last poem.An article in Harpers magazine prompted Longfellow to write The Bells of San Blas.
West Coast Of North America From San Blas To San Francisco . . . 1870
Posted December 22, 2009
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West Coast Of North America From San Blas To San Francisco ... Nice example of Imray's chart of the West Coast of North America, extending from Blas on the mainland of Mexico to just beyond San Francisco Bay, ... |
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