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	Gaspar de Portolà - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Don Gaspar de Portolà served as a soldier in the Spanish army in Italy and Portugal.
		As the newly-appointed Governor of the Californias, Don Gaspar de Portolà was charged with the expulsion of the Jesuits from Baja.
		In 1776, de Portolà was appointed the governor of Puebla.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gaspar_de_Portol%C3%A1 (1267 words)

	AllRefer.com - Gaspar de PortolA (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		In 1769, PortolA commanded an expedition sent out from Mexico to extend Spain's control up the Pacific coast by establishing a colony at Monterey Bay, which had been discovered and described by earlier explorers.
		PortolA's expedition, composed of two ships and two land parties, left VelicatA and met at San Diego Bay, where PortolA established a small colony.
		PortolA became governor of Puebla, Mexico, in 1776 and in 1784 returned to Spain.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Portola.html (293 words)

	Gaspar de Portolà - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		As the newly appointed governor of the Californias, Don Gaspar de Portolà was responsible for the expulsion of the Jesuits from Baja.
		The expedition led by de Portolà, which included Father Junípero Serra, the President of the Missions, and a combination of missionaries, settlers and leather-jacket soldiers, left Velicata on May 15.
		Eager to press on to Monterey Bay, de Portolà and his expedition, consisting of Father Crespi, sixty-three leather-jacket soldiers and a hundred mules loaded down with provisions, headed north on July 14, 1769.
	www.sancarlos.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Gaspar_de_Portol%E1 (1295 words)

	School
		De Portola currently serves a student population of over 1,000 students in grades 6-8.
		De Portola strives to be a school which staff, students, parents, and community collaborate to ensure excellence in teaching and learning.
		De Portola's staff is committed to increasing home and community involvement in the learning process.
	www2.sandi.net /deportola/school.htm (904 words)

	Gaspar4
		Portola was the commander of the expeditions sent from New Spain to colonize Upper California.
		Gaspar de Portola Chapter is part of District VI in the Northern California Council of the California State Society of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
		Gaspar de Portola Chapter participates in many committee activities on a local level in addition to those that are sponsored by the National and State Societies.
	www.geocities.com /jalexa7046/Gaspar4.html (428 words)

	Gaspar de Portola
		Gaspar de Portolá served as a soldier in the Spanish army in Italy and Portugal before being appointed Governor of Las Californias from 1768-1770.
		Gaspar de Portolá, as the newly appointed Governor of Baja California, was responsible for expelling the Jesuits from Baja California, where they had established 14 missions in 72 years.
		Diary of the journey that Don Gaspar de Portolá, captain of dragoons in the Espa&ntild;a Regiment, Governor of the Californias made by land to the ports of San Diego and Monterey, situated in 33' and 37
	www.sandiegohistory.org /bio/portola/portola.htm (871 words)

	Book Review
		Gaspar de Portola is one of the almost lost figures of early California history.
		Of major importance is the inclusion of a translation of the journal of Miguel Costanso of the Portola expedition to Monterey, as well as translations of Portola's own journal and many letters.
		Thus Gaspar de Portola: Explorer and Founder of California becomes both an account of Portola's career and a collection of source materials for further study of the period.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/88fall/br-gaspar.htm (249 words)

	Gaspar de Portolá (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		De Portolá a Catalonian nobleman served in the Spanish army being appointed the governor of Baja California in 1767 in order to expel the Jesuit missionaries there.
		De Portolá's land initially didn't find the bay and returned San Diego after making it as far (and discovering) the San Francisco Bay.
		De Portolá later became governor of Puebla and returned to Spain in 1784 after which nothing is known about
	www.freeglossary.com /Gaspar_de_Portola (453 words)

	Portola Fest. 1909
		The Portolá [Portola] Festival demonstrated to the world that San Francisco had the ability to sponsor a major civic event and it bolstered the city’s case for hosting the Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915.
		This first Portolá [Portola] Festival was a wildly successful five-day party, with an innocence and revelry never before seen in the history of San Francisco.
		Gaspar de Portolá [Portola]’s “discovery” of San Francisco Bay in 1769 was selected as the theme.
	www.postcard.org /portola01.htm (1526 words)

	gaspar de portolá (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		De Portolá, a Catalonian nobleman, served in the Spanish army before being appointed the governor of Baja California in 1767, in order to expel the Jesuit missionaries there.
		The expedition's four parties met at San Diego Bay, where colony - the present-day San Diego - was established.
		De Portolá's land party initially didn't find the bay and returned to San Diego.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Gaspar_de_Portol%E1.html (171 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		When Portola organized his expedition for the march from San Diego Bay to Monterey, many of his soldiers were ill from scurvy, and at one time on the march the sick list numbered nineteen men, including the governor and Rivera, his chief officer.
		In 1585, Captain Francisco de Gali, sailing for the Philippines, was directed to sail, on the return voyage, as far north as the weather would permit, and on reaching the coast of California, examine the land and the harbors on his way homeward, make maps of all, and report all that he accomplished.
		Portola followed the same route that he took on the retreat from Monterey, and on May 24th arrived at the Ensenada Grande under Punta de Pinos, near the cross they had erected, December 10th.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext04/7marc10.txt (18558 words)

	Gaspar de Portolà Catalonian Studies Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Gaspar de Portolà Catalonian Studies Program was created through an agreement signed in 1986 between the University of California, Berkeley, and the Generalitat de Catalunya, the government of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, for the purpose of promoting education, research and cultural events on Catalonian themes.
		Funded by a grant from the Generalitat de Catalunya, the program is a research unit of International and Area Studies.
		The program is named after Gaspar de Portolà (Balaguer, 1717 - Lleida, 1786), who led the land expedition that reached the San Francisco Bay area, near the city of Pacifica, in 1769.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /~catalan/Catstudies.html (263 words)

	City of Pacifica, California - History - Portola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		It was given to the State of California by the autonomous region of Catalonia in Spain in 1988.
		Catalonia was the birthplace of Don Gaspar de Portola, leader of the expedition responsible for the European discovery of San Francisco Bay.
		Expecting to find a "fine harbor, sheltered from winds," they concluded that the rough seas they met at the mouth of the Salinas River could not possibly be their goal and continued north.
	www.ci.pacifica.ca.us /HISTORY/portola.html (371 words)

	De Portola (Gaspar) Middle School in Tarzana, California/CA - School Tree
		De Portola (Gaspar) Middle School is classified as a "Middle School".
		De Portola (Gaspar) Middle School was operational at the time of the last report and is currently operational.
		De Portola (Gaspar) Middle School IS NOT a Charter school.
	california.schooltree.org /magnet/De-Portola-Gaspar-Middle-009570.html (153 words)

	Gaspar de Portola Biography / Biography of Gaspar de Portola Main Biography
		Gaspar de Portolá was born at Balaguer in the province of Catalonia.
		José de Gálvez, visitor general of New Spain, quickly organized a plan of occupation under the overall command of Portolá.
		Portolá's diary of the 1769 expedition was translated by Donald E. Smith and Frederick J. Teggart as Diary of Gaspar de Portolá during the California Expedition of 1769-1770 (1909).
	www.bookrags.com /biography-gaspar-de-portola/index.html (536 words)

	Gaspar de Portolá (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		De Portolá, a Catalonian nobleman, served in the Spanish army before beingappointed the governor of Baja California in 1767, in order to expel the Jesuit missionaries there.
		De Portolá'sland party initially didn't find the bay and returned to San Diego after making it as far as (and discovering) the San Francisco Bay.
		There, themission of San CarlosBorromeo de Carmelo was founded.
	www.therfcc.org /gaspar-de-portol%E1-75089.html (147 words)

	Monterey Bay Aquarium: Visitor Information - Portola Cafe and Restaurant
		In 1769, Captain Gaspar de Portola, then Spanish governor of Baja California, led an expedition north from San Diego to establish a colony on Monterey Bay.
		Portola's expedition marked the first European exploration of the California interior, blazing a route that we travel today on U.S. With only the description of the Spanish sailor Sebastian Vizcaino to guide him, Portola sighted Monterey Bay, but failed to recognize it.
		Portola's first view of the rocky shoreline did not match Vizcaino's fanciful description of Monterey Bay as "the best port that could be desired...sheltered from all the winds..."
	www.mbayaq.org /vi/vi_aquarium/vi_aq_portola.asp (460 words)

	Portola (Don Gaspar De) Elementary School in Livermore, California/CA - School Tree
		Portola (Don Gaspar De) Elementary School is classified as a "Primary School".
		Portola (Don Gaspar De) Elementary School was operational at the time of the last report and is currently operational.
		Portola (Don Gaspar De) Elementary School IS NOT a Magnet school.
	www.schooltree.org /062211002622.html (182 words)

	San Diego History by California History and Culture Conservancy
		He appointed Jose de Galvez in Mexico to organize an expedition to colonize California, beginning with the strategic bays of San Diego and more importantly, Monterey.
		Gaspar de Portola volunteered to command the expedition and was made acting military governor of California, Father Junipero Serra was chosen to lead the missionary effort.
		The leader of the expedition, Gaspar de Portola, arrived June 27, two days in advance of Father Junipero Serra.
	historyandculture.com /chcc/explorers.html (1136 words)

	Gaspar de Portola Middle School Highly Gifted Magnet Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Gaspar de Portola Middle School Highly Gifted Magnet Center is part of the Gaspar de Portola Middle School and shares its campus facilities and programs.
		Gaspar de Portola Middle School Highly Gifted Magnet Center is the only magnet middle school for highly gifted children in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
		Portola Middle School opened in 1960 as a grade 7-9 junior high school.
	www.bol.ucla.edu /~cusgsjn/portola/about.html (422 words)

	[No title]
		Important source material on the four-pronged expedition into Alta California led by Gaspar de Portola, during which Junípero Serra founded the first of his missions (at San Diego), the presidio and mission at Monterey were established, and San Francisco Bay was first discovered.
		I; foxing to atlas profile views but not to the folding charts, which are clean save for occasional slight offset; rubbing to atlas boards, else in very good to near fine condition, uncommon and very desirable with the atlas.
		This is the Estelle Doheny copy, with her red leather booklabel to front pastedowns; old booklabel of a Havana bookseller to front pastedown of Vol.
	www.pbagalleries.com /catalogs/curcat97-5.html (4155 words)

	Living History Society - Gaspar Portola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Portola after a rest proceeded north into California accompanied by Captain Ribeera I Moncada, Sergeant Ortega and twenty-six soldados de cuera.
		9 July 1770 Garspar de Portola sailed on the San Antonio from Monterey to San Blas and New Spain.
		By mid May 1784, Portola was installed as the King's lieutenant, in the city of Lleida, in western Catalonia and served until 21 August 1784.
	www.legendsalive.org /characters/portola.html (293 words)

	Mission Basilica San Diego De Alcala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Port of San Diego, discovered and mapped by Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo in 1542 was selected as the intermediate stopping point and a combination of soldiers and settlers were dispatched to hold the country and convert the Indians.
		General Joes de Galvez created the detailed plans for the expedition and assigned leadership to Don Gaspar de Portola, who was governor of Baja California.
		For many months the settlers fought starvation until Governor Portola announced the project was to be abandoned.
	missionbasilicasandiegodealcala.com (366 words)

	California Mission History: San Diego de Alcalá
		Even so, after two weeks' rest Governor Portola gathered the strongest men about him and set off northward in an attempt to locate Vizcaino's Bay of Monterey.
		Two days later, on July 16, 1769, a crude brushwood shelter had been erected and there Father Serra established Mission San Diego de Alcalá which was to be the first of the famous California missions.
		Today only at Mission San Antonio de Pala, former outpost Chapel of Mission San Luis Rey, are Mission Indians still ministered to at an original Spanish site.
	www.californiamissions.com /cahistory/sandiego.html (414 words)

	Banning Indians: Missing the point, or more ethnic clensing? (at Fury.com)
		Braves, Chiefs, Apaches, and Comanches are all among the 'offensive' labels that would be forbidden.
		I went to Gaspar de Portola Middle School.
		Gaspar de Portola, as the Spanish Governor of the Californias, in the 1760s, "was responsible for expelling the Jesuits from Baja California, where they had established 14 missions in 72 years.
	www.fury.com /article/1305.php (258 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The governor, Don Gaspar de Portolá, volunteered to lead the expedition, and he was named commander-in-chief.
		The Cañada de los Osos[23], still so called, they named because of a fight with some very fierce bears, one of which they succeeded in killing after it had received nine balls.
		On the 20th they were at Punta de Año Nuevo, and camped at the entrance of the cañon of Waddell creek.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext04/8marc10.txt (18524 words)

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