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Nicholas Trist and Baja California
Pacific Historical Review, 1963AMONG THE LEGENDS which clutter popular accounts of Baja California one of the most persistent asserts that the United States almost obtained the peninsula through conquest and diplomacy in the war with Mexico but failed through the bungling of negotiations by President Polk's agent to Mexico, Nicholas Trist.
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Jesuit Missions in Baja California
The Americas, 1967Whatever history may record about his personal life, there is no denying that Pope Alexander VI was among the most efficient and far-sighted of the Church’s long list of vicars. Perhaps nowhere is this fact more obvious than in the pontiff’s concern and zeal for the missions.
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