Gaspar de Portolá
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Don Gaspar de Portolá y Rovira was a Spanish Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the first governor of the Californias from 1767 to 1770. Born in Catalonia into an aristocratic famil
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Monument to Portolá in Balaguer, Catalonia.
Portolá expedition monument in Pacifica, California honoring Portolá's first sighting of San Francisco Bay.
Monument to Portolá in Sant Esteve de la Sarga, Catalonia.
Pedro Fages
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Pedro Fages was a Spanish soldier, explorer, and first lieutenant governor of the province of the Californias under Gaspar de Portolá. Fages claimed the governorship after Portolá's departure, acting
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…of supplies for the new mission at Monterey. On April 17, after mustering what forces he could, Portolá's land expedition, which included lieutenant Pedro Fages, 12 Spanish volunteers, seven leather-jacket soldiers, five Baja California Indians, two muleteers, and Juan Crespí serving as the expedition's chaplain…
Incidents in California History mural at the United States Post Office, Berkeley (detail). Caption reads: "Pedro Fages and Fray Juan Crespi first white men to set foot on land now Berkeley..."