The History of Puerto Rico: From the Spanish Discovery to the American OccupationVan Middeldyk, R. A. (Rudolph Adams)
History
The History of Puerto Rico: From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation
Van Middeldyk, R. A. (Rudolph Adams)
Puerto Rico -- History
Boriquén, first known name of
Puerto Rico; seat of Guaybána; Boriqueños
restless; revolt in; last of the Boriquén
Indians; the republic of, proclaimed; falls;
native inhabitants of.
Bowdoin, Hendrick, commands
Dutch fleet in attack on San Juan.
Brau, his history of Puerto Rico quoted.
Bruckman, an American, takes
active part in insurrection;
shot.
Buccaneers, their origin.
Cacáo.
Cannibals, supposed to be found among
the Caribs.
Capárra, first settlement of Spaniards
in Puerto Rico; capital transferred
from, to San Juan; the old capital.
Capital, transferred from Capárra to Sun Juan.
Caribs, supposed by Columbus to be
on Guadeloupe; annoy Spaniards in Puerto
Rico; assist the Boriquén Indians; raids in
Puerto Rico; in Dominica punished by the
Spaniards; in the Windward Islands; their
extermination of aborigines of the West
Indies; origin of; characteristics; were they
cannibals?; disappearing.
Castellano y Villaroya, Spanish Colonial
Minister, intercedes in behalf of Puerto
Rico.
Castellanos, Juan, brings 75 colonists
to Puerto Rico; attorney for Puerto
Rico at the court of Spain.
Castellanos, Juan de, treasurer of Puerto Rico.
Castro, Baltazar, reports depredations of Caribs.
Ceron, Juan, Governor of Puerto Rico;
arrested by Juan Ponce;
restored to office;
returns to Puerto Rico as governor.
Cervantes de Loayza, governor.
Charles V, King of Spain;
quarrels with Francis I of France;
orders the fortification of San German.
Cholera, epidemic of.
Church, in general.
Cities, growth of.
Clergy;
the island made a diocese;
Alonzo Manso, first prelate;
decree of Isabel II affecting clergy.
Coco-palm introduced.
Coffee.
Columbus, Christopher, returns from his first
voyage; received by the court at Barcelona;
second expedition organized; his second
expedition sails from Cadiz; discovers the
Windward Islands; introduces system of
enslaving the Indians by "distribution" of
them among settlers.
Columbus, Diego, with Christopher
Columbus's second expedition; viceroy and
admiral, in la Española; deposes Ponce;
authority of, suspended; deprived of the
power of appointing Governor of Puerto Rico.
Commerce, its development; imports
and exports.
Cortéz, his conquest of Mexico.
Cromwell, his alliance with France
against Spain.
Cuba, influence of Cuban revolution on
Puerto Rico; reforms in, suggested by
Sagasta.
De la Gama, Antonio, charged with executing
the royal decree against the "distribution" of Indians.
Diaz, Bernal, de Pisa, with Columbus's
second expedition.
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