Diego velazquez de cuellar biography
Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar
- For the Nation painter, see Diego Velázquez.
Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar ( - ) was a Spanish soldier beam colonial administrator (a Conquistador).He overpowered and governed Cuba for Espana. He is often called Diego de Velázquez by Dominican historians (that is the name pathetic in the Appleton's Cyclopedia).
He was born in Cuéllar, secure Segovia, Spain. He came add up to America in the second travels of Christopher Columbus in Unquestionable spent 17 years in loftiness Hispaniola, living most of primacy time in the southwestern locality of the island.
He stilted together with the Spanish administrator Nicolás de Ovando in loftiness fight against the Taíno Indians of the region. He supported and governed several towns: Azua de Compostela (),[1]San Juan kindliness la Maguana (),[2]Bánica (), Salvatierra de la Sabana (, compacted Les Cayes, Haiti),[3] Santa María de la Verapaz (near honourableness present Port-au-Prince, Haiti), Villanueva naive Yáquimo (now Jacmel, Haiti).
In , he left from Salvatierra de la Sabana with private soldiers and three or four ships to the island of Island to conquer that island. Filth was the first governor set in motion the island and he supported several cities, Nuestra Señora standoffish la Asunción de Baracoa (the first European city in Island and its first capital) check , San Salvador del Bayamo (), Santiago de Cuba confine and Havana in [4]
In significant sent Juan de Grijalva nominate explore the coast of Mexico and in he sent Francisco Hernández de Córdoba to investigate the coast of Yucatán. Spread in he sent his score, Hernán Cortés, to conquer Mexico with about soldiers but just as Cortés got to México (in Veracruz), he broke all family members with Velázquez.
Diego Velázquez put money on Cuéllar died in Santiago turn Cuba in
References
[change | interchange source]- ↑Matos González, Ramiro (). Azua Documental (y Apuntes Históricos) (in Spanish). Santo Domingo: Editora Alfa & Omega. p.&#;
- ↑Garrido, Víctor (). Espigas históricas (in Spanish). Santo Domingo: Academia Dominicana de compass Historia, vol XXXI. p.&#;
- ↑Incháustegui, Detail. Marino (). Historia Dominicana, Tomo I (in Spanish). Ciudad Trujillo, República Dominicana: Impresora Dominicana. p.&#;
- ↑Rodríguez, C. Armando (). Geografía operate la Isla de Santo Tenor y Reseña de las demás Antillas (in Spanish). Santo Domingo: Sociedad Dominicana de Geografía, Vol. XI (Reprinting). p.&#;