reactior reactiregio reacti reactionles. so so from the palace of the governors the governors directed the exploration of new mexico, the settlement of new mexico, the establishment of the spanish land tenure system here in the southwest, they received directives from the voice roy in mcmcand sent reports from this far northern colony back to mexico and back to spain. one of my favorite characters, as i said, is governor bernardo lopez demendisabal and his wife dona teresa aguilera iroce. it s rare to know as much about a colonial woman as we know about dona teresa. that s because very few colonial women wrote their own stories but dona teresa did and she wrote that as a result of being arrested by the spanish inquisition. dona teresa and the governor arrived in new mexico in the summer of 1659. by the summer of 1662, the governor and his wife had criticized local authority. they were in conflict with the sheriff, they were in conflict with the priest late in august of 1662 t
dad used to say as they move it around. they re building with very simple machines, ramps, pulleys, ramps. all the way back to the late 16th century 1580s or so they were talking about a way to defend all their caribbean holdings because piracy was a big problem. the treasure fleets were being preyed on and the king of spain sent over one of his best engineers, one of his best generals to figure out a way to defend against the piracy. they came up with an idea. fortifying ten of spain s ports. the plan was, puerto rico, havana, all these were going to be fortified. number ten at the very bottom of the list, st. augustine. ignacio daas is the original plan, how they ll use the land in the area. literally we re a one-fifth scale model of what was considered a frontier fortification of spain, meaning defending the frontier from the two nations. 16th, 17th, early 18th century, they ll have fortifications all around a city they are laying siege to. you ll see 15 or 16 of these i
he was determined to make it a palace. other people writing about it across the centuries, this modest adoe by buadp adobe buil. there was nothing about the palace of the governors that made it appear to be what we consider a great national historic landmark. calling it a palace was more pretense than reality for much of its history. the spanish occupied new mexico from 1598 until 1821 when mexico declared its independence from spain. in that period of 1598 to 1609, the new mexico seat of government was in the northern part of the state. in 1609, the governors moved here to santa fe and established this as the first government house. in this building they ruled the territory that was new mexico and at that time new mexico was everything that wasn t florida. so it is a massive area. so from the palace of the governors, the governors directed the exploration of new mexico, the settlement of new mexico, the establishment of the spanish land tenure system here in the southwest. t
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