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Home: Attractions: Living History: By Historical Region: North America: Spanish Colonial

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2nd Independent Company of Catalonian Volunteers Spanish Soldiers in Colonial America, The 2nd Catalonians do Colonial Living History Reenactment of Spanish Colonial America, and are very good at it. http://www.Soldados.us/2ndCat - Rate It | Review It | Travel details   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. http://mywebpages.comcast.net/calderon/ - Rate It | Review It | Travel details   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. http://militarymuseum.org/History%20Spnsh%20%26%20Mex%20CA.html - Rate It | Review It | Travel details   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. http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/chelohan/soldado.html - Rate It | Review It | Travel details   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. http://www.neta.com/~1stbooks/live.htm - Rate It | Review It | Travel details   La Segunda Compañía de las Californias en la Plaza del Reál Presidio de San Diego Articles, photos and drawings related to the 18th Century Spanish colonial frontier soldiers of the Royal Presidio of San Diego, Alta California. Extensive site with MIDI music. http://www.Soldados.us/SanDiego - Rate It | Review It | Travel details   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. http://www.missionsjc.com/living_hist.html - Rate It | Review It | Travel details   Los Soldados: Soldiers of the Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara This is the official home of Los Soldados, a reenactment group dedicated to portraying the Spanish Soldados de Cuera at the Presidio of Santa Barbara. Very extensive, lots of information. http://www.Soldados.us/StBarbara - Rate It | Review It | Travel details   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. http://www.palaceofthegovernors.org/collections.html# - Rate It | Review It | Travel details   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. http://www.soldados.us/Aragon - Rate It | Review It | Travel details   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. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soldados - Rate It | Review It | Travel details   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. http://personal.redestb.es/esz/ipasado.htm - Rate It | Review It | Travel details   Weapons & Equipment of the Presidial Soldier Part of the much larger Alamo de Parras framed site with a extensive information about soldiers and life the in the Spanish and Mexican period. There is an dictionary of terms, with drawings and photos of equipment and uniforms, as well as a description and painting about the San Saba massacre. http://alamo-de-parras.welkin.org/history/hispanic_period/parras/militaria/militaria.html - Rate It | Review It | Travel details   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/). http://www.neta.com/~1stbooks/revolt_1.htm - Rate It | Review It | Travel details

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