Enlightenment · North America · Exploration
1776
San Francisco Founded
1776
Spanish soldiers and Franciscan friars under Juan Bautista de Anza chose a windy sand-swept bluff above a great bay and founded the Presidio and Mission Dolores. It was a sleepy outpost for sixty years. Gold and American annexation lay in a distant future; for now the wolves outnumbered the colonists.
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