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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Grijalva (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Grijalva GRIJALVA [Grijalva], river, c.400 mi (640 km) long, rising in SW Guatemala and flowing NW into S Mexico and N through Chiapas and Tabasco states to the Gulf of Campeche.
		Alvarado, Pedro de ALVARADO, PEDRO DE [Alvarado, Pedro de], 1486-1541, Spanish conquistador.
		He went to Hispaniola (1510), sailed in the expedition (1518) of Juan de Grijalva, and was the chief lieutenant of Hernán Cortés in the conquest of Mexico.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Grijalva (569 words)

	Cozumel History; The past vs. the present.
		Sebastian de Grijalva, a member of the entrada of Panfilo de Navarrez in New Spain, received his command of Sosola y Tenexpa in 1520 which was preserved in the hands of the family through three generations.
		Juan Pablo Grijalva was second corporal of the Presidio Terrenate when appointed by Juan Bautista de Anza as Sergeant of the Expedition to Alta California.
		Later, Grijalva led a group to Northern Baja California where "...having founded this mission in the mountain range among the Rosario y Santo Domingo, [we] fulfill the orders of the Viceroy on the 27th of March, 1793.
	cozumelrentalvillas.com /History-Grijalva.htm (2277 words)

	Juan de Grijalva - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Juan de Grijalva (born around 1489 in Cuéllar - January 21, 1527) was a Spanish conquistador.
		The main pilot was Antón de Alaminos, the other pilots were Juan Álverez (also known as el Manquillo), Pedro Camacho de Triana, and Grijalva.
		After rounding the Cape of Guaniguanico in Cuba, he sailed along the Mexican coast and arrived on May 1 at the Tabasco region in southern Mexico.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Juan_de_Grijalva (205 words)

	Santa Ana History - Featuring Historical Information of Santa Ana
		An adventuresome soldier from Sonora, Nueva Espania ("New Spain"), Juan Pablo Grijalva, and his son-in-law, Jose Antonio Yorba, are thought to have grazed cattle in the Santiago Creek area in the 1790s.
		Juan Antonio retired from the army in 1797 and, with his father in-law, Juan Pablo Grijalva, he began grazing cattle on the land that was to become Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana.
		Juan Pablo, born on October 27, 1785, was named after his maternal grandfather, the aforementioned Juan Pablo Grijalva.
	www.santaanahistory.com /articles/ranchos.html (2769 words)

	Edward T. Grijalva, aka Eddie Grijalva, of Orange County, CA
		Grijalva was curious about family stories concerning an early Grijalva ancestor who came from Mexico as a soldier (rank, second corporal) in 1776 and helped to settle the Orange County area.
		Juan de Grijalva led an expedition to the Yucatán and discovered a large river which to this day is named, the Rio de Grijalva.
		Grijalva came to California with the Anza expedition in 1776 and after retiring, petitioned for the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana.
	www.grijalvo.com /Grijalva_Edward_Trinidad/Edward_Trinidad_Grijalva.htm (451 words)

	City of Orange, CA - History
		Grijalva lived in San Diego, but he built an adobe ranch house on what is now Hoyt Hill.
		After Grijalva’s death, the rancho was taken over by his son-in-law, Jose Antonio Yorba, and grandson, Juan Pablo Peralta.
		The boundaries of the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana were validated in 1857 and the Yorba and Peralta families continued to live there.
	www.cityoforange.org /about/history.asp (2335 words)

	California Spanish Genealogy - Don Juan Pablo Grijalva
		During Grijalva's tenure at Presidio San Francisco, both daughters married soldiers at Mission Dolores.
		Juan Pablo Grijalva on visit(s) to the Escoltas (Military Escorts) de San Miguel, de San Juan, San Gabriel, y de San Miguel.
		Padre Juan Mariner in 1795 filed a "report on the survey which we made in company with Alfaréz Juan Pablo Grijalva, Corporal Juan Vicente, etc." Claudio, when in the military, accompanied them to locate the site for the Mission de San Luis Rey de Francia.
	www.sfgenealogy.com /spanish/grijalva.htm (2648 words)

	P B S : C o n q u i s t a d o r s - C o r t é s
		The Spanish governor of Cuba, Diego de Velásquez, organized a new expedition under Juan de Grijalva, his nephew.
		Grijalva was also fiercely attacked by the Mayans, but after a sea journey of several hundred miles, reached the coast of Veracruz.
		Grijalva and his men now realized that — judging by the size of the rivers, the height of the distant snow-capped mountains, and the variety and richness of human cultures and languages — they were on part of a continent, not an island.
	www.pbs.org /conquistadors/cortes/cortes_a03.html (269 words)

	Tulum, Tulum history and Tulum view
		The first mention of this city was made by Juan Diaz, who was on Juan de Grijalva's expedition that reached the coast of the Yucatan peninsula in 1518.
		In Juan de Reigosa's Las Relaciones de Yucatan, written in 1579, Zama is mentioned as a walled site with stone buildings which included a very large one that looked like a fortress.
		Pedro Sanchez de Aguilar, author of Informe Contra Idolorum Cultores del Obispado de Yucatan, (Madrid, 1639) mentions the coast of Zama when telling the story of ten shipwrecked Spaniards who were taken prisoner by the chieftain Kenich.
	www.tierrasdelsol.com /tulum_history.htm (530 words)

	The Juan Bautista De Anza Trail
		Juan Bautista de Anza – After his return from the long trek, Anza served as governor of New Mexico, led new expeditions in the northern frontier, commanded campaigns against the Comanches, negotiated enduring treaties with the Comanches and other tribes, and served in command posts in Sonora.
		Arballo’s daughter, Maria Ignacia Lopez de Carrillo, by Juan Francisco Lopez, lies buried in the ruins of the San Francisco Solano mission at Sonoma, beneath the original location of the font, where holy water streaming from the hands of the devout once fell on her grave.
		Should you follow Juan Bautista de Anza’s route from Tubac to Alta California – now a National Historic Trail – you will be richly rewarded in terms of the diversity of the landscape and the span of the human experience.
	www.desertusa.com /mag03/trails/trails07.html (5778 words)

	Cierva Juan de la - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Cierva, Juan de la, (1895-1936), Spanish engineer and inventor of the forerunner of the helicopter, the autogiro.
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	uk.encarta.msn.com /Cierva_Juan_de_la.html (106 words)

	Athena Review 2,1: Grijalva expedition, 1518
		Several of these Late Postclassic settlements were elevated on large platforms, including San Gervasio in the north with a major shrine to the Maya moon goddess Ix Chel ("she of the rainbow"), patroness of healing, childbirth, divination, and weaving, and a very popular diety at the time of Contact.
		Grijalva's ships then crossed to the Yucatán mainland (at first thought to be an island), and saw three large towns with stone houses and large towers (probably around Xcaret).
		Río Grijalva and Cintla: Eighty km west of Laguna de Teminos the ships came to the mouth of a large river which "cast fresh water 6 miles into the sea," and was renamed the Grijalva.
	www.athenapub.com /grijalv1.htm (1343 words)

	The Internet Classroom [Science Proficiency, Biology, French, and Spanish] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475-1519) He was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from its eastern shore.
		Panfilo de Narvaez was a conqueror of Cuba, he explored the western coast of Florida which he claimed for Spain.
		De Soto is buried in a tributary of the Mississippi River
	www.angelfire.com /zine/excel/spexplorers.html (2264 words)

	Juan de Grijalva - Wikipedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Juan de Grijalva (* 1490; † 1527) war ein spanischer Entdecker.
		Grijalva fand viele Beweise für eine Hochkultur und führte erste Unterredungen mit dem Maya-Kaziken Lázaro.
		Grijalva lehnte dies ab und schickte Pedro de Alvarado mit den ersten Schätzen nach Kuba zurück.
	de.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Juan_de_Grijalva (282 words)

	City of Tustin: About - About Our City
		This expedition, which had two padres (including Father Juan Crespi) and a small contingent of the army, set out north to establish the string of missions throughout California.
		The reason trees grew here was the same one which attracted Indians and then the early settlers - the availability of a dependable water supply, some of it from natural artesian wells that flowed from the ground.
		The water certainly attracted Juan Pablo Grijalva, who, in 1810, received a grant to use it for ranching.
	www.tustinca.org /about/index.htm (987 words)

	Mexico - Evolution of the Mexico National Flag and Coat of Arms
		The first Europeans to visit the coast were Francisco Fernández de Córdoba in 1517 and Juan de Grijalva in 1518; conquest began in 1519 and Hernán Cortés defeated the Mexica on August 23, 1521.
		Growing discontent with Spanish rule led in due course to open revolt, the beginning of which is marked by the issuing of the Grito de Dolores on 16 September 1810; final independence came on 27 September 1821 and the country became an Empire under General Agustín de Iturbide.
		This, however, was short lived and gave place in 1823 to a republic; in 1864 an empire once more arose under the ill-fated Maximilian, only to be replaced again by a republic in 1867.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/mx_evo.html (925 words)

	HISTORY OF MEXICO - JERONIMO DE AGUILAR: THE MAROONED PRIEST WHO SPEEDED THE CONQUEST - BY JIM TUCK IN MEXICO CONNECT
		This is a story that would have been laughed out of a Hollywood studio had it ever been submitted as script material: that a leading figure in the Spanish Conquest of Mexico was a shipwrecked priest who learned a new language but refused to yield to temptations of the flesh.
		Two years earlier, an explorer named Juan de Grijalva had enjoyed an amicable meeting with a Tabascan chief who gave him a number of gold plates.
		The reply was that other tribes in the region had charged the chief who had been hospitable to Grijalva with treachery and cowardice.
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/history/jtuck/jtaquilar.html (1025 words)

	Chapman University - WCLS - Languages - German - Sister City Project - Settlers
		While serving as a soldier, Grijalva was impressed with the beauty of the region.
		With the approval of the local authorities, Grijalva gained control over the region and named it Arroyo de Santiago.
		In spite of the surrender of the entirety of California in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the Yorba and Peralta families were allowed to keep control of their lands and did so until Leonardo Cota, a member of the family, got into a financial crisis.
	www.chapman.edu /wcls/languages/german/sistercity/settlers.asp (582 words)

	MEXICO THIS MONTH - AN HISTORICAL REVIEW - MAY TONY BURTON - IN MEXICO CONNECT
		The first Mass on Mexican soil is celebrated at an improvised altar on the shore of Campeche by the sailors accompanying Juan de Grijalva.
		Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla born on the San Vicente hacienda in Corralejo, near Pénjamo, in the state of Guanajuato.
		Juan de Zumárraga receives royal approval to found the first library in the Americas.
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/travel/tonysarticles/tbthismonthmay.html (1065 words)

	SOA Watch
		Juan López Grijalva, for example, was an SOA student on four separate occasions between 1963 and 1975.
		In 1978, he went on to head the Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia (DNI), the primary operations division of the military-controlled national police force (FUSEP).
		López Grijalva then became the armed forces’ chief of intelligence in 1982, the same year he traveled to Argentina “on intelligence matters.” [Footnote: The source is a declassified DOD document in the National Security Archives.] As the head of intelligence, López Grijalva allegedly channeled orders from Álvarez to death squad operatives and oversaw their activities.
	www.soaw.org /new/pressrelease.php?id=78 (869 words)

	SOMOS PRIMOS: Dedicated to Hispanic Heritage and Diversity Issues
		Don Juan Pablo was a soldier, settler, rancher and pioneer who came to California with the Anza expedition in 1775-1776.
		Grijalva's ancestry dates to the time of Cortez, and his legacy includes the only Spanish rancho in Orange County.
		Though the official head of the expedition was Father Atanasio Domínguez, the Superior of the New Mexico Franciscans, it appears that Father Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, the missionary at Zuñi, was instrumental in the genesis of the project.
	www.somosprimos.com /spnov.htm (10934 words)

	Hernando Cortez (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		After finding a better harbor north of San Juan, Cortez and his small force sailed there and established a town, La Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz.
		In 1528, Cortez went home to Spain and was given the title "Marques del Valle de Oaxaca." When Cortez returned to the New World, he explored California for a year in 1534.
		The only other things he did before he died were he fought against the Pirates of Algiers in Africa during 1541, and later that year back in the New World, he led a force against the Mayas.
	ntap.k12.ca.us.cob-web.org:8888 /whs/projects/history/cortez.html (510 words)

	Santa Ana History - Don Juan Pablo Grijalva
		San Francisco de Asis a la Laguna de los Delores] was founded about one month later on October 9.
		...Dona Dolores Valencia [Grijalva], widow of said deceased...replied that she know[s] from the deceased Captain Don Raymundo Carrillo, that [although] it
		Pablo Grijalva is now home -- resting in the Bowers Museum..
	www.santaanahistory.com /articles/grijalva.html (2547 words)

	Chapman University - WCLS - Languages - German - Sister City Project - History
		During this time, California was under the control of the Spanish government, and the first settler here was Juan Pablo Grijalva.
		The United States government allowed the family of Juan Pablo Grijalva to remain in control of the ranch.
		The ranch was called “Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana.” The head of the ranch was Jose Antonio Yorba (Juan Pablo Grijalva’s son in law) and his grandson, Juan Pablo Peralta.
	www.chapman.edu /wcls/languages/german/sistercity/history.asp (460 words)

	Real Estate in Orange, Orange County, California
		The first landholder in this area was Juan Pablo Grijalva.
		In 1801, he was given permission by the Spanish colonial government to ranch "the place of the Arroyo de Santiago." The land he owned ran from the Santa Ana River and the foothills above Villa Park to the sea at Newport Beach.
		Grijalva lived in San Diego, but he built an adobe ranch house on what is now known as Hoyt Hill.
	www.drelocation.com /California/orangeco/orange.htm (531 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Camargo was an unheralded sailor on Juan de Grijalva's 1518 voyage to the southern Gulf of Mexico and, according to Díaz, a Dominican friar.
		Most of those who survived the Huastec attack and the voyage were pressed into Cortés's forces for the final assault on the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán.
		Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las islas y Tierra-firme de el Mar Océano (10 vols., Asunción, Paraguay: Guaranía, 1944).
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/CC/fca24.html (335 words)

	[No title]
		How we arrived at the Island now called San Juan de Ulua, and the reason why that name was given to it, and what happened to us there (55) CHAPTER XV.
		How we arrived at the Rio de Grijalva, which in the language of the Indians is called Tabasco, of the attack which the Indians made on us, and what else happened to us with them (107) CHAPTER XXXII.
		How we determined to found "La Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz" and to build a fort in some meadows near the salt marshes, and close to the harbour with the ugly name (Bernal) where our ships were at anchor, and what we did there (174) CHAPTER XLIX.
	history.hanover.edu /texts/wordfiles/diaz/contents.doc (2254 words)

	Tulum Area Information
		Tulum is surrounded by a wall - and it's the only known walled city by the ocean that the Mayans ever constructed.
		Tulum's temples were observed by the Spanish, as they sailed by on an exploratory expedition led by Juan de Grijalva in 1518.
		In 1842, John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood visited the site and later made it known to the world with the book Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, where Stephen's text is complemented by Catherwood's magnificent illustrations.
	www.exclusivevacations.com /tulum.htm (625 words)

	Athena Review Image Archive: Map of the Voyage of Grijalva (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Four ships and 300 men sailed from Havana on April 8, 1518 under Juan de Grijalva, nephew of the Cuban governor Velasquez.
		Grijalva's expedition, described in the Itinerario de l'Armata by the chaplain, Juan Díaz, reached hundreds of miles up the Gulf Coast as far as the Río Panuco (around Tampico) before returning to Cuba.
		In the next year, Cortés followed Grijalva's coastal route as far north as Cempoala.
	www.athenapub.com /mpgrij1.htm (79 words)

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