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The landing of the Spanish Tercios at Terceira during the Portuguese succession crisis of 1580 An 1845 engraving of the island of São Miguel (west is up). In 1427, São Miguel became the second of the islands discovered by Gonçalo Velho Cabral to be settled by colonists from continental Portugal.
Location of São Miguel Island in the Azores. On Sunday the 26th of June, since the weather was in their favor, the Marquess decided to send the twelve galleys ahead under the command of Captain Diego de Medrano. [22] Medrano's galleys set sail before the rest of the fleet and arrived at San Miguel without incident on 3 July 1583. [23]
José Joaquim Almeida (Almeyda or D'Almeyda) was born around 1777 on São Miguel Island, Azores Islands ().He was the son of José Almeida and Ana. From a young age he devoted himself to naval craft. He emigrated to the United States in 1796, at 19 years old, settling in Baltimore, Maryland, where he obtained citizenship, d
Gonçalo Velho Cabral (c. 1400 – c. 1460) was a Portuguese monk and Commander in the Order of Christ, explorer (credited with the discovery of the Formigas, the re-discovery of the islands of Santa Maria and São Miguel in the Azores) and hereditary landowner responsible for administering Crown lands on the same islands, during the Portuguese Age of Discovery.
Zarco was born in Portugal, and became a knight at the service of Prince Henry the Navigator's household. In his service at an early age, Zarco commanded the caravels guarding the coast of the Algarve from Muslim incursions, was at the conquest of Ceuta , and later led the caravels that recognized the island of Porto Santo in 1418 to 1419 and ...
Eventually, Sebastián Serrallés left Puerto Rico for Barcelona and turned over the management of the growing estate to his Puerto Rico-born son Don Juan Serrallés Colón. In 1865, Juan Serrallés Colón (1845–1921) founded Destilería Serrallés , a rum producer located in Ponce, Puerto Rico , known for its Don Q (from Don Quixote ) rum ...
Island Paradox: Puerto Rico in the 1990s. Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 978-0-87154-751-4. Scarano, Francisco A. Sugar and slavery in Puerto Rico: The plantation economy of Ponce, 1800-1850 (U of Wisconsin Press, 1984). Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher. Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1833-1874 (U of Pittsburgh Press, 1999).
On September 28, he landed in what is now San Diego Bay and named it "San Miguel". [21] A little over a week later he reached Santa Catalina Island (October 7), which he named "San Salvador", after his flagship. [22] On sending a boat to the island "a great crowd of armed Indians appeared" – whom, however, they later "befriended".