Francisco Bouligny
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Brigadier General Don Francisco Domingo Joseph Bouligny y Paret was a Spanish Army officer and colonial administrator who served as an acting governor of Louisiana in 1799. As a francophone in Spanish
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Monument honoring Francisco Bouligny and the first Malagueño settlers of New Iberia, Louisiana.
Sebastián Calvo de la Puerta
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Sebastián Nicolás de Bari Calvo de la Puerta y O'Farrill, 1st Marquess of Casa Calvo, KOS was a Spanish nobleman and soldier who served as Governor of Louisiana between 1799 and 1801.
Francisco Bouligny
…1799, Francisco Bouligny was appointed as military governor of Louisiana, with Nicolás María Vidal as civil governor, until the new governor general, Sebastián Calvo de la Puerta y O'Farrill, Marquess de Casa Calvo, reached the colony on 18 December 1799. Bouligny died in New Orleans on November 25, 1800, following a long illness. He was…
Tomb of Sebastián Calvo de la Puerta y O'Farrill in Père Lachaise Cemetery