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Rut's voyage was a 1527–1528 English maritime voyage of exploration to Northern America and the West Indies, led by John Rut, and commissioned by Henry VIII.It is thought to have been the earliest English voyage to the West Indies, and to have resulted in the earliest known English letter sent from North America.
In 1705, Pope Clement XI named Patriarch Carlos de Borja Centellas the Military Vicar (General) of the Spanish Armies.Beginning in 1736, Pope Clement XII merged the office of Vicar General of the Spanish Armies with the Patriarchate of the West Indies pro tempore et ad septennium, that is, "temporarily for seven years", and added to those titles the Royal Palace's Chaplaincy in 1741.
On 10 Apr 1679, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XI as Titular Archbishop of Tyrus and on 8 May 1679, named Patriarch of West Indies. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] On 28 May 1679, he was consecrated bishop by Savo Millini , Titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia , with Antonio de Isla y Mena , Bishop of Osma , and Antonio Ibarra ...
On 6 April 1762 he was appointed Titular Archbishop of Neocaesarea in Ponto and Patriarch of the West Indies. [4] As patriarch, he replaced Álvaro de Mendoza Caamaño Sotomayor, who had died on 23 January 1761. [5] He was military vicar of Spain from 1762 until his death. He was a judge of the Royal Chapel. [2]
The action of 9 November 1822 was a naval battle fought between the United States Navy schooner USS Alligator and a squadron of three pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba during the Navy's West Indies anti-piracy operation.
[3] [5] On 8 Oct 1546, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul III as Patriarch of West Indies and Apostolic Administrator of Sigüenza. [1] [2] [5] He served as Patriarch of West Indies until his death on 16 Sep 1552. [1] [5] While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of Pedro Guerrero Logrono, Archbishop of Granada (1547) . [5]
Watts' West Indies and Virginia expedition also known as the Action of Cape Tiburon [5] was an English expedition to the Spanish Main during the Anglo–Spanish War. [ 4 ] [ 7 ] The expedition began on 10 May and ended by 18 July 1590 and was commanded by Abraham Cocke and Christopher Newport .
By mid-December, they altered their course to west-north-west. [97] They were unfortunate in that, had their course differed slightly, they might have encountered a number of Pacific islands which would have offered fresh food and water, such as the Marshall Islands , the Society Islands , the Solomon Islands or the Marquesas Islands .