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Juan Bautista de Anza Bezerra Nieto (July 6 or 7, 1736 [1] – December 19, 1788) was an expeditionary leader, military officer, and politician primarily in California and New Mexico under the Spanish Empire.
It may refer to: People. Juan Bautista Pastene (1507–1580), Genoese maritime explorer. Juan Bautista de Toledo (1515–1567), Spanish architect. Juan Bautista Pomar (1535–1601), Mexican author. Juan Bautista Villalpando (1552–1608), Spanish priest, scholar and mathematician.
Juan Bautista de Anza II was a Spanish military commander and explorer who led settlers on an overland route from the Sonoran Desert to the coast of California. Starting in 1775, Anza led a group of more than 240 settlers on a journey across the frontier of the Viceroyalty of New Spain to establish.
Juan Bautista de Anza was a military officer, governor, explorer and diplomat. His life had an enormous impact on the history of California, Arizona, Texas and New Mexico, as well as Northern Mexico.
Leading them was a determined Spanish captain named Anza. EARLY HISTORY. Juan Bautista de Anza was born in Mexico of Spanish parents in 1735. His father and grandfather before him had been frontier military captains in Sonora, Mexico. They had both talked of a new trail to California.
The Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza (1735-1788) opened the overland route from Mexico to California and established the first settlement at San Francisco. Juan Bautista de Anza was born in Fronteras, Sonora, Mexico, where his grandfather and father had served as commanders.
A Mexican-born trailblazer and explorer, Captain Juan Bautista de Anza II was the first person of European descent to establish an overland trail from Mexico to the northern Pacific coast of California.
A familiar call from Spanish Lt. Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza. In 1775-76, Anza led more than 240 men, women and children on an overland journey across the frontier of New Spain to settle Alta California.
The current 1,200-mile Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail connects history, culture, and outdoor recreation from Nogales, Arizona, to the San Francisco Bay Area. Exploring the Anza Trail is far more than outdoor recreation.
In 1775-76, Lt Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza led more than 240 men, women, and children on an overland journey across the frontier of New Spain to settle Alta California. Follow 1200 miles in the footsteps of this intrepid, multiethnic expedition, and explore the rich cultural history of communities from Nogales, Arizona, to San Francisco. The ...