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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gomez, Maximo (search)
sonally assaulted him. He at once became a bitter enemy of Spain, left the Spanish army, and settled down as a planter; but when the Ten Years War broke out in 1868 he joined the insurgents and received a command from the Cuban president Cespedes. Along with the latter and General Agramonte, he captured Jugnani, Bayamo, Tunas, and Holguin. He also took Guaimaro, Nuevitas, Santa Cruz, and Maximo Gomez. Cascorro, and fought in the battles of Palo Sico and Las Guasimas. Later he invaded Santa Clara and defeated General Jovellar. He was promoted to the rank of major-general, and when General Agramonte died succeeded him as commander-in-chief. When Gen. Martinez Campos was sent to Cuba in 1878 and succeeded in persuading the Cuban leaders to make terms of peace, General Gomez withdrew to Jamaica, refusing to remain under Spanish rule. Subsequently he went to San Domingo, where he lived on a farm until the beginning of the revolution in 1895. When Jose Marti, who had been proclaim
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Junipero, Miguel Jose Serra 1713-1784 (search)
Junipero, Miguel Jose Serra 1713-1784 Missionary; born in the island of Majorca, Nov. 24, 1713; entered the Order of St. Francis in 1729; was sent to Mexico in 1750, where he was asigned to labor among the Indians of Sierra Gorda. When the Jesuits were expelled from Lower California in 1767, the Franciscans, under Junipero, were appointed to take charge of all the California missions. He founded the following missions: San Diego, Cal., July 16, 1769; San Carlos, at Monterey, June 3, 1770; San Antonio, July 14, 1771; San Gabriel, near Los Angeles, Sept. 8, 1771; San Luis Obispo, Sept. 1, 1772; San Francisco, June 27, 1776; San Juan Capistrano, Nov. 1, 1776; Santa Clara, Jan. 18, 1777; San Buenaventura, March 31, 1782. He died in Monterey, Cal., Aug. 28, 1784.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), California (search)
Great Britain around the world, commissioned also to settle the boundary question on the north of California, anchors his vessel, the Discovery, in San Francisco Harbor......Nov. 14, 1792 With seven officers, Vancouver, on horseback, visits Santa Clara, under Spanish escort; the first foreigners to penetrate so far into the interior......Nov. 20, 1792 Vancouver anchors at Monterey, Nov. 27, 1792; visits San Carlos, Dec. 2; puts to sea......Jan. 15, 1793 Returns from the Hawaiian Islanleys, at Sacramento......Sept. 26, 1882 Acts passed creating a horticultural, sericultural, and forestry commission, and a bureau of labor statistics......1885 California home for the care and training of feeble-minded children opened at Santa Clara......1885 Thirty-six-inch lenses for the great refractor of the Lick Observatory safely brought by rail from Cambridgeport, Mass., and deposited in the observatory vaults......Dec. 27, 1886 Legislature appropriates $5,000 for a monument