Transcripts of documents from the Archivo General de Indias : relating to the history of Mexico, Florida, Louisiana, and the Southwest between 1518 and 1817 [between 1910 and 1920].

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Archivo General de Indias. Transcripts of documents from the Archivo General de Indias : relating to the history of Mexico, Florida, Louisiana, and the Southwest between 1518 and 1817 [between 1910 and 1920].

Transcripts of documents from the Archivo General de Indias : relating to the history of Mexico, Florida, Louisiana, and the Southwest between 1518 and 1817 [between 1910 and 1920].

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The set includes transcripts of royal cédulas, legal proceedings, petitions, financial accounts, inventories, chronicles, diaries, letters, and reports. Materials relate primarily to the discovery, conquest and settlement of Mexico and U.S. territories once under Spanish rule--New Mexico, Texas, California, Florida, and Louisiana--between 1518 and 1817. Of special interest are letters and reports from early conquistadores such as Pizarro, Cortés, de Soto, and Father Casas; correspondence of viceroys and provincial governors, including Galve, the counts of Revillagigedo, Moncloa, and Monterrey, Juan de Oñate, and Diego de Vargas; orders and judicial decisions from the Consejo de Indias; and accounts of exploration and conquest, such as Obregon's chronicle of the discovery of New Spain (vol. V), 5 volumes (XI-XV) documenting the retaking of New Mexico by the Spanish, 1691-1693, and 2 volumes of materials on the expulsion of the English from Florida (XIX, XX). Military documents include lists of army personnel, inventories of supplies, and letters and reports concerning hostilities with the English, French, and Indians, especially the Apaches, fortifications, and troop movements. One document is in French.

26 v. : maps, col. plans, col. coat of arms ; 36 cm.

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