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People from El Bierzo: Alvaro de Mendana de Neira, Garcia Alvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of Villafranca, Sampiro, Bermudo II of Leon

People from El Bierzo: Alvaro de Mendana de Neira, Garcia Alvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of Villafranca, Sampiro, Bermudo II of Leon

          
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Chapters: Alvaro de Mendana de Neira, Garcia Alvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of Villafranca, Sampiro, Bermudo Ii of Leon, Angel Pestana, Jan, Thyrsus Gonzalez de Santalla, Lope Garcia de Castro, Lidia Valentin, Antonio de Olaguer Y Feliu, Coloman Trabado, Eva Gonzalez, Martin Sarmiento, Severiano Alvarez. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 54. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alvaro de Mendana de Neira (or Neyra) (1542 October 1595) was a Spanish navigator. Born in Congosto, in Leon, he was the nephew of Lope Garcia de Castro, viceroy of Peru. He is best known for the two voyages of discovery he led into the Pacific in 1567 and 1595 in search of Terra Australis. Historian Brett Hilder has written of ardent spirits in Peru, inspiring three Spanish voyages to the south west Pacific in the forty years from 1565 to 1605. One of these ardent spirits was certainly Spanish soldier Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa who arrived in Peru in 1557. Sarmiento de Gamboa developed an interest in Inca stories of gold and riches being collected from lands further to the west. Sarmiento's proposal for an expedition to find land in the Pacific was put to Governor Lope Garcia de Castro, finding favour as it matched common Spanish belief in the existence of a great South Land. Historian Miriam Estensen argues Governor Castro also agreed as a way of maintaining peace and order. Restless and disruptive elements in the Spanish Americas were encouraged to join such journeys of exploration to remove them from colonial society. The lure of possible wealth made these expeditions attractive to such men, often drawn from the poorest levels of society.. However, Sarmiento de Gamboa was bitterly disappointed not to be made Captain-General of the expedition. Instead, command was given to the Governor Castro's nephew, the younger a...http: //booksllc.net/?id=150998


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155574769
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 56
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 95 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1155574761
  • Publisher Date: 14 Oct 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 229 mm

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