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Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre-Girault ( 12 January 1716 – 3 July 1795 ) was a Spanish general, explorer, author, astronomer, colonial administrator and the first Spanish governor of Louisiana.
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Fosdick had found the installations surrounded by a battery of saloons and houses of prostitution, with filles de joie from all over the country flocking to San Antonio, Laredo, and El Paso to `` woman the cribs ''.
Alfonso XIII ( Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Austria-Lorena ; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ) was King of Spain from 1886 until 1931.
* 1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
* 1836 – Texas Revolution: The Battle of San Jacinto – Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
* 1903 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish lawyer, nobleman, and politician, founder of the Falange ( d. 1936 )
Two of Jacopo's nephews, Pier Antonio Buonaparte and Giovanni Buonaparte, however, took part in the 1527 Medici rebellion, after which they were banished from Florence and later were restored by Alessandro de ' Medici.
The scale length has remained quite consistent since it was chosen by the originator of the instrument, Antonio de Torres.
Antonio de Solís, Philip IV's official Chronicler of the Indies, described Montezuma customarily taking a chocolate beverage after meals, as part of a sumptuous daily ritual:
* 1824 – Patriot forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence.
Antonio José de Sucre, the brilliant young lieutenant of Bolívar who arrived in Guayaquil in May 1821, was to become the key figure in the ensuing military struggle against the royalist forces.
However, the coup de grâce for Mahuad's administration was Mahuad's decision to make the local currency, the sucre ( named after Antonio José de Sucre ), obsolete and replace it with the U. S. dollar ( a policy called dollarization ).
In 1798 he painted luminous and airy scenes for the pendentives and cupula of the Real Ermita ( Chapel ) of San Antonio de la Florida in Madrid.
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* 1795 – Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general, explorer, author, and astronomer, governor of Louisiana ( b. 1716 )
When the U. S. Navy's attack was thought to be imminent, a 12 cm gun, the " Hontoria System ", which came from the Spanish Navy's cruiser Antonio de Ulloa and two shorter ones of the same caliber, from the Spanish warship Lezo, were installed on the rocky island El Fraile.
The first Spanish governor of Louisiana, Antonio de Ulloa, arrived in New Orleans in March 1766, and in early 1767 he dispatched his subordinate, Francisco Riu, to replace St. Ange as commander of a soon-to-be-built fort at the mouth of the Missouri River.
In 1737 Jorge Juan y Santacilia and Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish scientists sent by the French Academy on a scientific mission to measure a degree of meridian arc at the equator, arrived in the colony.
His name is also recalled as the meteorological term Bouguer's halo ( also known as Ulloa's halo, after Antonio de Ulloa, a Spanish member of his South American expedition ) which an observer may see infrequently in fog when sun breaks through ( for example, on a mountain ) and looks down-sun — effectively a " Fog bow " ( as opposed to a " rain-bow ").
* May-French Geodesic Mission ( including Charles Marie de La Condamine, Pierre Bouguer, Louis Godin, Jorge Juan, Antonio de Ulloa, Joseph de Jussieu and Jean Godin ) sets out for Ecuador.
When Lt. Antonio de Ulloa, of the King's navy, turned up in 1740 to Lima, he, as a soldier, admired the uniforms of the bodyguards of the Viceroy: " blue turned up with red and laced with silver ".
O ' Reilly then held trials and severely punished those French Creoles responsible for the expulsion of Spain's first Governor Antonio de Ulloa from the colony.
Having crushed the ringleaders who had led the Rebellion of 1768, the French uprising against Governor Antonio de Ulloa, ( January 12, 1716 – July 3, 1795 ) and Spanish rule, O ' Reilly sent most of his troops back to Cuba, and focused his attention on administratively getting Louisiana back on its feet, and stabilizing the food supply.
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