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Galveston, Texas, Galveston Bay, Galveston County, Galvez, Louisiana, and St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, were, among other places, named after him. The Louisiana parishes of East Feliciana and West Feliciana (originally a single parish) were said to have been named for his wife Marie Felicite de Saint-Maxent d'Estrehan.
1st Viscount of Galveston and 1st Count of Gálvez: 17 June 1785 30 November 1786 Int. Eusebio Sánchez Pareja y Beleño Regent of the Audiencia: 30 November 1786 8 May 1787 50 Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta (Archbishop of Mexico) 8 May 1787 16 August 1787 51 Manuel Antonio Flórez Maldonado: 16 August 1787 16 October 1789 52
Count of Gálvez (Spanish: Conde de Gálvez) is a hereditary title in the peerage of Spain, granted in 1783 by King Charles III to Bernardo de Gálvez, 1st Viscount of Galveston, hero of the American Revolutionary War and later viceroy of New Spain, an office he succeeded his father in. [2] [3] [4] [5]
The Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company was formed in New York in 1830 to promote additional settlement around Galveston Bay and other parts of southeast Texas. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] The company gradually brought in many colonists from the United States and Europe, although conflict with Mexican officials over colonization laws initially made these ...
Map of Galveston in 1871 Galveston City Railway Company c 1894. At the end of the 19th century, Galveston was a booming metropolis with a population of 37,000. Its position on the natural harbor of Galveston Bay along the Gulf of Mexico made it the center of trade in Texas and one of the largest cotton ports in the nation, in competition with New Orleans. [22]
A viceroy (/ ˈ v aɪ s r ɔɪ /) is an official who reigns over a polity in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory. The term derives from the Latin prefix vice- , meaning "in the place of" and the Anglo-Norman roy ( Old French roi , roy ), meaning "king".
St. Mary's Church in Galveston was designated as the cathedral. [3] The pope named Odin as the first bishop of Galveston. [10] In 1850, the Vatican transferred the Diocese of Galveston to the Archdiocese of New Orleans. Odin recruited the Brothers of Mary and Oblates of Mary to operate St. Mary's University at Galveston, which he established in ...
A storm struck when they were near Galveston Island, Texas. Approximately 80 men survived the storm, being washed ashore at Galveston Island. After 1529, three survivors from one boat, including Estevanico, became enslaved by Coahuiltecan Indians; in 1532, they were reunited with a survivor from a different boat, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. [5]