New Mexico’s Days As A Spanish Colony
August 21, 2026
In 1774, Spanish merchant Pedro Alonso O'Crouley y O'Donnell composed a 200-page manuscript, A Description of the Kingdom of New Spain , a work now preserved in the National Library in Madrid and translated into English only in 1972. Born in Cádiz in 1740 to Irish Catholic refugees, O'Crouley was…
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