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17th c. Dutch map of the Americas Universities founded in Spanish America by the Spanish Empire. The empire in the Indies was a newly established dependency of the kingdom of Castile alone, so crown power was not impeded by any existing cortes (i.e. parliament), administrative or ecclesiastical institution, or seigneurial group. [65]
With the support of the Los Angeles Times, a special LAPD Red Squad arrested so many strikers that the city's jails were soon filled. Broadway in the Historic Core 1917. Some 1,200 dock workers were corralled in a special stockade in Griffith Park. The Times wrote approvingly that "stockades and forced labor were a good remedy for IWW terrorism."
When Stockton's forces entered Los Angeles unresisted on August 13, 1846, the nearly bloodless conquest of California seemed complete. Stockton left too small a force (36 men) in Los Angeles, and the Californians, acting on their own and without help from Mexico, led by José María Flores, forced the small American garrison to retire in late ...
The siege of Los Angeles, [1] was a military response by armed Mexican civilians to the August 1846 occupation of the Pueblo de Los Ángeles by the United States Marines during the Mexican–American War.
On the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs in Mexico, on Aug. 13, 1521, the documentary "499" from Rodrigo Reyes tackles colonialism's shadow.
The founding of Los Angeles by the Felipe de Neve and the Los Angeles Pobladores in 1781. The settlers and escort soldiers who founded the towns of San José de Guadalupe , Yerba Buena (San Francisco), Monterey, San Diego and La Reina de Los Ángeles were primarily mestizo and of mixed Negro and Native American ancestry from the province of ...
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Spanish conquest of Central America (13 P) Spanish conquistadors (7 C, 186 P) I.
LACMA is marking the 500th anniversary of the fall of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan with an exhibition that aims to subvert the traditional narrative of Spanish conquest over Mexico.