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The 201st Fighter Squadron (Spanish: Escuadrón Aéreo de Pelea 201) is a fighter squadron of the Mexican Air Force, part of the Mexican Expeditionary Air Force that aided the Allied war effort during World War II. The squadron was known by the nickname Águilas Aztecas or "Aztec Eagles", apparently coined by members of the squadron during ...
Researchers at the Archivo Histórico de Ponce. The Archivo Histórico de Ponce comprises all the documentation generated by the agencies of the municipality of Ponce as well as donations by private citizens. It also contains documentation about other municipalities in Puerto Rico. [14] Archivo Histórico has some 100 million archived documents.
Carmelo Rosario Natal has linked the origins of the Ponce Historic Zone to an event that took place on 8 June 1893. On that date, La Gaceta de Puerto Rico, the insular government's official periodical, published an edict of the Governor of Puerto Rico, Antonio Daban y Ramirez de Arellano, that mandated municipal authorities throughout the Island to divide, for fire control purposes, a town's ...
The Antiguo Cuartel Militar Español de Ponce or El Castillo ('Old Spanish Military Headquarters in Ponce' or 'The Castle') is the only structure directly related to the events of the land defense of Puerto Rico during the 1898 American invasion of the Island. [2]
Sep. 26—With names like Audie Murphy and Claire Lee Chennault associated with Hunt County, and with Majors Airport beginning operations as a training center for the U.S. Army Air Forces (ASAAF ...
Fay Fowlie de Flores. Ponce, Perla del Sur: Una Bibliográfica Anotada. Second Edition. 1997. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Universidad de Puerto Rico en Ponce. p. 196. Item 1003. LCCN 92-75480 "Cuadro sinoptico de las autoridades locales de Ponce, 1692 - 1972." Boletín de la Academia de Artes y Ciencias de Puerto Rico.
Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico opens a branch in Ponce; 1963 – Centro Cultural de Ponce Carmen Solá de Pereira starts functioning. 1964 – Los Chinos de Ponce start selling ice cream at King's Cream, across Plaza Las Delicias. 1967 New York City dedicates its Puerto Rican Day Parade to Ponce. [57] The "1692 flag of Ponce" is ...
Fuerte de San José, also known as Fuerte de la Playa de Ponce, [a] was an 18th-19th-century Spanish fortress located in Barrio Playa in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. It was part of a three-fort system design to defend the Port of Ponce , the Barrio Playa seaport village and the City of Ponce from seaborne attacks.