José de Escandón, 1st Count of Sierra Gorda, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Count of Spain
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Place of Birth: Santa Cruz de Bezana, Cantabria, Spain
About José de Escandón, 1st Count of Sierra Gorda
- José de Escandón, conde de Sierra (May 19, 1700, Soto de la Marina, Cantabria, Spain – 1770, New Spain) was a Spanish Indian-fighter in New Spain and the founder and first governor of the colony of Nuevo Santander, which extended from the Pánuco River in the modern-day Mexican state of Veracruz to the Guadalupe River in the modern-day U.S.
- state of Texas.
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