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Meanwhile, Perez’s earnest lieutenant, Estévan Martinez, was busy supplying the California missions. Martinez happened to be in Monterey in 1786 when he lent a hand and piloted two French ships into the harbor. The Frenchman La Pérouse brought news from the north that the Russians were far from sleeping. Spain, it seemed, must continue to look to its northern borders. Consequently, the Spanish viceroy ordered Martinez north for another reconnaissance. In 1788, in command of the Princesa, Martinez reached Kodiak Island and Unalaska in the Aleutians. There he learned of Russian plans to ...more
Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land
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