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Monterey County Historical Society, Local History Pages--Monterey's Royal Presidio of San Carlos de Monterey - English
URL: http://users.dedot.com/mchs/presidio.html

The Royal Presidio of San Carlos de Monterey is one of four presidios or military forts designed by engineer Miguel Costansó along the California coast. Other presidios were located at San Diego (1769), San Francisco (1776), and Santa Barbara (1782).

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Monterey County Historical Society, Local History Pages--The Colonization of Monterey - English
URL: http://users.dedot.com/mchs/colonization.html

Provisions at the San Diego outpost were running short, and the arrival of the famished Portolá expedition from their exploration of Monterey and San Francisco Bay on January 24, 1770 stretched the dwindling supplies even further.

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The Portola Expedition of 1769 - English
URL: http://users.dedot.com/mchs/portola1769.html

The brief history and sources.

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Gaspar de Portola - English
URL: http://www.sandiegohistory.org/bio/portola/portola.htm

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Gaspar de Portola served as a soldier in the Spanish army in Italy and Portugal before being appointed Governor of Las Californias from 1768-1770. He was of noble birth, born in Catalonia. In 1767, the Viceroy of Mexico ordered the arrest and deportation of all Jesuits in colleges and missions. Gaspar de Portola, 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.

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