Talk:Juan Bautista de Anza
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The Basque origin of Anza is widely documented, even to the origins of his family inside the Pyrenee mountains. But about his father, also Juan Bautista, it is documented that he was from a farmacist family in Hernani, having there his bautism card. The Spanish empire then was formed by different nations, as in example had been Flanders or the Navarre kingdom. The fact that today the Basque region is divided among Spain and France didn't meant in any way that the Basques weren't Basques, as it seems our Galician wiki-friend thinks.Idiazabal 12:51, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] 500 or 800?
"In 1779 the new governor of New Mexico, Juan Bautista de Anza, organized a 500-man army with 200 Ute and Apache auxiliaries." Comanche history
"With his Ute and Apache allies and about 800 soldiers he went north through the San Luis Valley, entering the plains at what is now Manitou Springs, Colorado." Juan Bautista de Anza
How many Spanish soldiers really, then? It may be a minor point, but consistency is always good.... TheMadBaron 21:05, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
