José de Escandón, 1st Count of Sierra Gorda

José de Escandón y Helguera, conde de Sierra 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 Tamaulipas to the Guadalupe River in the modern-day U.S. state of Texas.

19 May 1700

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