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 | Calderon's Company -
A 16th Century New World Garrison, is a group of living-historians based at De
Soto National Memorial, in Bradenton, Florida. The organization is named after
Captain Pedro Calderón, who was left in charge of the base camp and port, when
Hernando de Soto began his entrada into La Florida in June of 1539. |
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California Military Museum: Spanish & Mexican Period - Contains links to
articles and sites of interest to the Spanish Coloninal historical
interpreter. Includes a collection of original paintings, drawings and
photographs from Spanish Colonial to modern times. |
| Che-lo-han
Freetrappers: Soldado de Cuera page - This part of the Freetrappers
website has quotes (unattributed) and a drawing of a Soldado de Cuera. |
| Compañía de Cavallería del Real
Presidio de San Antonio de Bexar - A group of living historians who
portray first person impressions of the Presidio Soldados from San Antonio de
Bexar. Very accurate uniforms and equipment. |
| Father Junípero Serra
(Bruce Buonauro) - Bruce is an excellent reenactor, who does his
impression for schools and like the wandering Padre, shows up throughout
California at various events. This is a quick outline of what he does. |
| Hispanic America USA
(1stBooks) - Spanish Colonial Living History pages that contain fairly old
information on organizations and events. Part of a collection of pages that
discuss the contributions of Hispanics to the USA. Useful for old contact
information, even with broken links and missing graphics. |
| Living History
Society at the Mission San Juan Capistrano - This page is part of the
larger Mission San Juan Capistrano site and contains info on their Living
History Society and when they present. Within the larger site, there are event
listings, historical info and pictures of the mission. There is also an
application to be admitted to the Society. |
| Original
drawings of 1720 Soldados de Cuera - The Palace of the Governors in Santa
Fe, NM has the Segasser Hide Paintings on display. This is the only place on
the web where I've found any representations of these important 1720 drawings.
Click on the thumbnail to bring up a bigger picture. |
| Primer Batallón Ligero de
Voluntarios de Aragón - This is the home page of one of the few reenacting
groups in Spain, and therefore a rare site. Napoleonic era, with pictures from
the Museum of the Army in Madrid of extreme interest to Spanish Colonial
reenactors. |
| Soldados listserver on
Yahoo! Groups - This is a discussion listserv, with historians, reenactors
and illustrators as members. There are also pictures and articles to download,
as well as an event calendar. |
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Spanish Colonial Troops in Canada - This article, by René Chartrand,
contains detailed information on the 1st Company of Catalonian Volunteers,
stationed in Nootka, Alaska, along with uniform descriptions and paintings by
David Rickman. |
| Spanish Marines - a
short history - This unofficial site for the Marine Corps of Spain has
some history and pictures of interest to Spanish Colonial reenactors,
especially the uniform pictures at the end of the page. |
| Wills of a Father and
Son and A Contribution to the American Revolution - This article, written
by a descendiente (Virginia Sanchez) describes her research into the wills of
New Mexican soldados around 1800. The equipment that is listed in the wills
makes this very useful to the Spanish Colonial (Presidial) reenactor. In
addition, there are links to books on the sidebar that also might be of
interest to more general Spanish Colonial history. Unfortunately, there are
broken links on this and other pages within larger 1stBooks site, including
the link for Virginia's genealogy page (http://thern.home.att.net/). |
Mexican Era
| California Impressions
- Maria Moreno.
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Merced and other contemporary women, presented by Maria Moreno, who now has
her own site. One-woman presentations enacting women of Early California. A
children's section with games in under development.
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| Hippolyte Bouchard
attacks San Juan Capistrano Mission - The "privateers" of the magazine No
Quarter Given annually commemorate the attack on Mision San Juan Capistrano.
Interesting pictures on this page, notice that the only casualty at the 1998
event was one of the raiders. |
| Rancho Camulos
Museum - The Rancho Camulos Museum is located on the site of the rancho
founded in 1859, which was originally part of the Rancho San Francisco. This
also known as the 'Home of Ramona' (The novel 'Ramona' is about the Rancho
period) and is Ventura County (CA)'s first National Historic Landmark. |
| San Antonio Living
History Association - The San Antonio Living History Association (SALHA)
makes Texas History come alive. They portray both sides of the conflict of the
Texas Revolution. ¡Viva Mexico! |
| San Jacinto Battle
Reenactment - 2001, The Texian Heritage Society, Inc. - These couple of
pages contain pictures mostly Mexican troops with artillery. This is part of
the larger, framed THS site, which has references, links and articles, mostly
on the Filibustero (gringo) side. |
| San Pasqual Battlefield Site Location
Project - Archeology and information on the site near San Diego where the
Californios defeated the US 1st Cavalry, including information and pictures on
other Battle Day celebrations. |
| San
Patrucio Batallion - Documentary & link to movie - Mark Day has put
together a documentary on the Irish soldiers who deserted to the Mexican side
during the invasion of Mexico (Mexican-American War). This framed site has
content on the San Patrucio's, information about the documentary, as well as
info & links about the movie "One Man's Hero". |
| Soldados listserver on
Yahoo! Groups - This is a discussion listserv, with historians, reenactors
and illustrators as members. There are also pictures and articles to download,
as well as an event calendar. |
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