The Alta California Supply Ships 1773 76 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Alta California Supply Ships, 1773-76 Historians have been prone to regard the expeditions of 1769 to Alta California1 as accomplishing permanent occupation of that region by Spain, simply because uninterrupted possession thenceforth ensued. A little re ection upon the failure of many promising attempts in previous centuries to found colonies in the Californias, or, indeed, wherever colonization has been undertaken, might lead to a conjecture that Alta. California must have had its period of uncertainty, and a study of the documents would prove the conjecture true. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."