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	Alessandro Malaspina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alessandro Malaspina (also found as Alexandro and Alejandro) (November 5, 1754 - April 9, 1810) was an Italian-Spanish naval officer and explorer.
		In January 1775 Malaspina took part of the expedition to help Melilla, which was under siege by Moroccans and later participated the siege of Algiers.
		Malaspina examined the political situation in the Spanish colonies in the Pacific Ocean.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alessandro_Malaspina (829 words)

	Alessandro Malaspina Summary
		Alejandro Malaspina sailed on voyages of exploration in the Pacific Ocean for the King of Spain on his way to circumnavigating the globe in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
		Malaspina was born into a distinguished Italian family in the then-Spanish city of Parma.
		Alessandro Malaspina (also found as Alexandro and Alejandro) (November 5, 1754 - April 9, 1810) was a Italian-Spanish naval officer and explorer.
	www.bookrags.com /Alessandro_Malaspina (1298 words)

	2005-2007 Calendar: Malaspina University-College
		Malaspina University-College is named after Alexandro (aka Alejandro or Alessandro) Malaspina, who was born November 5, 1754, to a distinguished family of Italian extraction, in the Duchy of Parma, a Spanish possession.
		Malaspina’s proposals are outlined in a report of his politico-scientific voyage, which was published in Madrid in 1885.
		The Italian navigator Alexandro Malaspina is a pivotal figure, not only in the history of European contact with First Nations peoples on the West Coast of North America, but also in the development, during the period now known as the Enlightenment, of a number of academic disciplines including physics, applied astronomy and political philosophy.
	www.mala.ca /calendar/FrontSection/AlexandroMalaspina.asp (413 words)

	R.Smg. MALASPINA
		The submarine Malaspina was one of the six boats of the Marconi class.
		Under the command of Commander Mario Leoni, the submarine crossed the Strait of Gibraltar the night of September 3rd, while proceeding at the maximum speed of 16 knots, and at 3:35 AM the crew sighted in the clear and luminescent night the menacing silhouette of an enemy destroyer.
		The fate of the Malaspina remained uncertain for several decades until, in March 2004, Dr. Axel Niestlè and Eric Zimmerman published a report crediting the loss of this submarine to an attack by a Sunderland.
	www.regiamarina.net /subs/submarines/malaspina/malaspina_us.htm (2254 words)

	Alessandro Malaspina di Mulazzo \| Scienca (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Alessandro Malaspina di Mulazzo (* 1754 - † 1810) war ein italienischer Adliger und Seefahrer in spanischen Diensten.
		Erst 1803 wurde Malaspina wieder freigelassen und nach Italien ausgewiesen.
		Nach Alessandro Malaspina wurde der größte nordamerikanische Gletscher in Alaska Malaspinagletscher benannt.
	www.scienca.de.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Alessandro_Malaspina_di_Mulazzo (166 words)

	Captain Alexandro Malaspina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Alexandro Malaspina was born on November 5, 1754 to an aristocratic and distinguished Italian family in Mulazzo, in northern Tuscany.
		It is as a result of this part of the expedition that Malaspina's name is associated with the Nanaimo area, though he himself came no closer than Yuquot on the west coast of the Island.
		Upon his return to Spain, Malaspina became enmeshed in political intrigues in an attempt to have these ideas recognised by the King, and was imprisoned for seven years.
	www.mala.bc.ca /www/discover/capt/capt.htm (274 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Alejandro (aka Alexandro and Alessandro) Malaspina (1754-1810)
		Alexandro Malaspina was born on November 5, 1754 to the Marquis Carlo Morello and Caterina Meli Lupi di Soragna.
		On April 20, 1796,; after an inconclusive trial, Charles IV decreed on his own initiative that Malaspina be demoted and imprisoned in La Coruna (in Galicia), in the isolated fortress of San Anton.
		From 1796 to 1802, sequestered in the castle, Alexander Malaspina wrote a variety of essays in economics, aesthetics and literary criticism.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=457 (1610 words)

	NZ James Cook Journal
		Malaspina was soon fighting the British at Cape St. Vincent and learning the skills of seamanship on a variety of voyages.
		Malaspina had observed the poor conditions of most people in several of Spain's colonies and believed that changes and improvements were necessary.
		Malaspina was arrested in 1795 and, after a peremptory trial, was sentenced to ten years imprisonment.
	pages.quicksilver.net.nz /jcr/~nzjournal10.html (4495 words)

	Alexandro Malaspina Research Centre Website (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The ships had been designed and built specially for the expedition, and named by Malaspina in honour of James Cook's Discovery and Resolution (although the second name is not the happiest of translations!).
		On April 20, 1796, after an inconclusive trial, Charles IV decreed on his own initiative that Malaspina be demoted and imprisoned in La Coruña (in Galicia), in the isolated fortress of San Antón.
		Towards the end of 1802, as a result of pressure by Francesco Melzi d'Eril and by Napoleon, Malaspina was freed from gaol, but had to leave Spain immediately.
	web.mala.bc.ca.cob-web.org:8888 /black/amrc/Biographies/AMBIO.HTM (1068 words)

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		To visit: the octagonal tower, named “Dante’s tower”, because Dante Alighieri stayed there for a time as guest of Malaspina family, the ruins of Malaspina castle (XIII-XV century), the imposing arcades of the ancient waterworks (XV century) and the Centro Studi Alessandro Malaspina, navigator who lived in ‘700 (for info: phone 0187 439712).
		In the surrounding area: the village Bibola with its winding structure and the ruins of an imposing castle (XII-XIII), and the walled medieval village of Caprigliola with the cylindrical Tower (XII century).
		Comano: the Malaspina castle (XI-XIII century) lies in the middle of this attracting landscape and is dominated by an imposing circular tower.
	www.cadelmororesort.it /root_eng/lunigiana.htm (737 words)

	Alessandro Malaspina Wikipedia, Flickr, Delicious Bash at Bashr.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		In September 1788 Malaspina joined forces with Jos?e Bustamante y Guerra and together they approached the Spanish government to organize an expedition to visit the Spanish possessions in America and Asia.
		On September 21 1794, by way of South America, Malaspina and his expedition returned to C?z, Spain.
		After an inconclusive trial on April 20 1796, Charles IV of Spain demoted Malaspina and sent him to prison in Galicia.
	www.bashr.com /en_bio_pics/Alessandro_Malaspina (812 words)

	Malaspina Glacier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Malaspina Glacier is so large that it can only seen in its entirety from space; this 1994 photo from STS-66, on a rare clear day, is of an area about 100 km (60 miles) across.
		There are two lakes on the margin of the glacier; Oily Lake at the foot of the Samovar Hills between the Agassiz and Seward glaciers, and Malaspina Lake at the southeast margin, close to Yakutat Bay.
		The glacier is the namesake of the Alaska Marine Highway vessel the M/V Malaspina.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malaspina_Glacier (330 words)

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		Hill, Pacific Voyages, p.72 - "Captains Alessandro Malaspina and José Bustamante y Guerra made Monterey, California, a port of call and of scientific investigation in September, 1791.
		This visit, by an expedition which was probably Spain's greatest exploratory contribution to the age of enlightenment, placed California under the scrutiny of men of science and left the most extensive compiled record of data from the Hispanic periods.
		With 8 tipped-in fascimile pages of the 1849 Montevideo first edition of Viana's Journal; tipped-in facsimile of letter from Alessandro Malaspina to Joseph Banks; 2 tipped-in plates from drawings by Brambilia; frontis.
	www.pbagalleries.com /catalogs/curcat103-4.html (3710 words)

	Discoverers Web: Valdes and Galiano
		Cayetano Valdes y Flores, also known as Cayetano Valdes y Bazan, was a Spanish naval officer and hydrographer (1767-1835), known particularly for his surveys of the north-west coast of North America in 1792, together with Dionisio Alcala Galiano.
		Malaspina had decided that a thorough survey of the north-west coast of America was long overdue.
		In addition, Malaspina had himself at that time intended to visit and survey the Sandwich Islands, a plan which he was subsequently forced to abandon.
	www.win.tue.nl /~engels/discovery/valdes.html (994 words)

	Monument of Ice and Stone @ National Geographic Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The Malaspina, North America's largest piedmont glacier, sprawls at the foot of the St. Elias Mountains across an area nearly half the size of Delaware.
		The Nabesna, flowing north from the Wrangells, is said to be among the longest nonpolar valley glaciers in the Western Hemisphere.
		A half century later Alessandro Malaspina sailed into Yakutat Bay in search of the fabled Strait of Anian—the long-sought western portal of the Northwest Passage.
	magma.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0303/feature3/fulltext.html (1833 words)

	Alexandro Malaspina Research Centre Website (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Felipe Bauzá y Cañas was born in Palma, Majorca, and at a young age entered the Royal School for Pilots at Cartagena.
		He was chosen by Malaspina to oversee the cartography of his Expedition and, after the return to Cádiz, was occupied for a while with the completion of the charts made during the trip.
		Alessandro Malaspina e la sua spedizione scientifica 1789-1794.
	web.mala.bc.ca.cob-web.org:8888 /black/amrc/Biographies/bauza.htm (503 words)

	.: E S P E C I A L :: Ayuntamiento de La Coruña :.
		Well-known prisoners in the 18th century were Antonio Villarroel, one of Felipe V's generals in the War of the Spanish Succession, the minister Melchor de Macanaz and the Italian sailor Alessandro Malaspina.
		In the 19th century, the Francophile general Porlier spent time in the dungeons of San Antón before being hanged in the Campo de Leña, near the Plaza de España.
		The adventure continued in the North Pacific, to the straits of Juan de Fuca, the Marshall Islands, the Marianas and the Philippines.
	www.aytolacoruna.es /en/sananton/noticia3.jsp (389 words)

	Books by Alessandro Malaspina, compare prices
		The Malaspina Expedition, 1789-1794 : The Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina
		Alessandro Malaspina E Fabio Ala Ponzone : Lettere Dal Vecchio E Nuovo Mondo (1788- 1803)
		by Manuel Lucena Giraldo, Alessandro Malaspina, Juan Pimentel Igea
	www.allbookstores.com /author/Alessandro_Malaspina.html (127 words)

	Lamson Library » Blog Archive » The Secret History Of The Convict Colony : Alexandro Malaspina’s ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Malaspina, Alessandro, 1754-1809 — Travel — New South Wales
		tags: 1788-1851, description and travel, expedición malaspina (1789-1794), history, king, robert j., 1947-, malaspina, alessandro, 1754-1809, malaspina, alessandro, 1754-1809 — travel — new south wales, new south wales, new south wales — description and travel — to 1850, new south wales — history — 1788-1851, to 1850, travel
		Voyages Of Enlightenment : Malaspina On The Northwest Coast, 1791-1792
	www.plymouth.edu /library/opac/record/1262931 (375 words)

	Alessandro Magnasco Wikipedia, Flickr, Delicious Bash at Bashr.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Alessandro Magnasco last updated: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 05:42:36 -0500
		Alessandro Magnasco also known as il Lissandrino (February 4, 1667?1749), was a Italian Rococo painter from Northern Italy.
		He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape scenes.
	www.bashr.com /en_bio_pics/Alessandro_Magnasco (879 words)

	Art and exploration in California, 1791-1827 Magazine Antiques - Find Articles
		Images made by expeditionary artists who traveled to California, at the distant edge of North America, certainly indicated that this remote land was worthy of more detailed scrutiny.
		One of the earliest artists to travel to California was Jose Cardero, who sailed in 1789 with the Spanish expedition led by Captain Alessandro Malaspina (1754-1809).
		The purpose of the Malaspina voyage, one of the most extensive ever planned by Spain, was to gather scientific data about the topography, flora, fauna, and native populations of different regions around the world, with special attention to the Pacific Coast of North America.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_4_155/ai_54370843 (803 words)

	Malaspina, Alessandro -- 1754-1809 -- Diaries (subject at ISBNdb.com)
		Malaspina, Alessandro -- 1754-1809 -- Diaries (subject at ISBNdb.com)
		Below you can see components of the subject along with their types and similar subjects.
		Malaspina, Alessandro,1754-1809 -- Journeys -- Northwest Coast of North America (2)
	isbndb.com /d/subject/malaspina_alessandro_1754_1809_diaries.html (74 words)

	Cote, Perou. / Malaspina, Alessandro, 1754-1809 ; Spain. Marina ; France. Depot-general de la Marine / 1821
		The progression of engraving style from the La Perouse to the 1828 charts is most interesting.
		The charts of Mexico and South America are largely copies of the Spanish Marine charts issued in the early 1800s showing the Malaspina Expedition tracks (see W. Heckrotte's copy of the Spanish charts).
		Bound in full red leather covers with decorative gold border and the same titles as above stamped on the spine.
	www.davidrumsey.com /maps2078.html (562 words)

	Cajun Republic of Louisiana - Alternate History Discussion Board
		France entered the war and aided the United States and Louisiana in establishing independence, followed by the Sultanate of Morocco who sent over 20,000 troops over the period of the Wars.
		On August 19, 1779, General Admiral Alessandro Malaspina surrendered to the Commander Berthier.
		1777-1779: The Wars of Independence continue until General Alessandro Malaspina surrenders to the Army of New France, under Commander Berthier, at at the Battle of Fort de Chartres.
	www.alternatehistory.com /discussion/showthread.php?t=17715 (1652 words)

	www.malaspina.org - Malaspina Great Books Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The Malaspina Coat-of-Arms linked image below will take you to our Home Record.
		Link to Malaspina Family Coat of Arms (Mulazzo) with Latin motto: "Malaspina Bonis Bonaspina Malis"
		Music: From Toccata & Fugue in D Minor by J.S. Bach; performed by Marie-Claire Alain aux grandes orgues Marcussen du Mariakirke Helsingborg, published in vinyl by Time-Life
	www.malaspina.org (232 words)

	Alessandro Malaspina Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Alessandro Malaspina Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		The Malaspina Expedition, 1789-1794: The Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina
		We guarantee the condition of every book, new or used.
	www.alibris.co.uk /search/books/author/Alessandro_Malaspina (102 words)

	The camera obscura in 18th century Alaska (+ Group News Message)
		use of a “camera obscura” in journals from the Malaspina voyage· Bauza‚
		Professor Olson's English translation from the Malaspina journals:
		Desengano” by Malaspina when he found the end of the bay choked with
	www.photographytalk.net /viewtopic-178689.html (416 words)

	Alexandro Malaspina Research Centre Website
		Alessandro Malaspina: A Biography was originally published in Spanish in Alejandro Malaspina: La América Imposible, ed.
		Under the auspices of the Alexandro Malaspina Research Centre, it has been translated into English by Don S. Kirschner and Teresa J. Kirschner; this version has been edited by Russell McNeil and John Black.
		Chapter VI: From the Court to La Coruña
	web.mala.bc.ca /black/amrc/Biographies/biography.htm (153 words)

	Marconi Class Italian Submarines
		Photographs and history of the Marconi Class submarines of the Italian Navy, launched 1939 - 1940, including Maggiore baracca, Michele Bianchi, Leonardo Da Vinci, Alessandro Malaspina, Guglielmo Marconi and Luigi Turelli.
		Le fotografie e la storia dei sottomarini di Classe di Marconi della Marina italiana, ha lanciato 1939 - 1940, includendo il baracca di Maggiore, Michele Bianchi, Leonardo Da Vinci, Alessandro Malaspina, Guglielmo Marconi e Luigi Turelli
		Everything we obtain for this site is shown on the site, we do not have any more photos, crew lists or further information on any of the ships
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /marconi_class.htm (285 words)

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