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Pedro Fages Beleta, soprannominato El Oso, è stato un militare ed esploratore spagnolo, secondo governatore militare della Nuova California dal 1770 al 1774, e governatore di Las Californias dal 1782 al 1791.
Pedro Fages (1734–1794) was a Spanish soldier, explorer, first Lieutenant Governor of the province of the Californias under Gaspar de Portolá.
party sent out in 1769 by Portolá—was that made by Pedro Fages in March, 1772. But the diary here published1 shows that in November, 1770, Fages led a party of explorers northwest¬ ward from Monterey to the Santa Clara Valley (“la Cañada del Puerto de San Francisco’’), down that valley to the head
Pedro Fages was an explorer of note in the Bay region. He had been a. member of the first exploring party, the Portola expedition of 1769. In 1770 on his own initiative, as lieutenant and military commander of Upper California, he discovered a land route from Monterey to the south. end of San Francisco Bay which was shorter by ten leagues than the.
Pedro Fages. 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.
Pedro Fages (b. 1734; d. 1794), Spanish soldier and explorer. Fages, a native of Guisona, Catalonia, joined the Barcelona-based Catalonian volunteers in 1767 and participated in the Sonora Expedition of 1767–1771 in Mexico.
The Colorado River campaign, 1781-1782; diary of Pedro Fages. Book digitized by Google from the library of University of Texas and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. From a manuscript preserved at the University of California.
