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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EU2_casa-natal-de-don-ramon-power-y-giralt_San-Juan-San-Juan.html
En esta casa nació en 1775 Don Ramón Power y Giralt diputado por Puerto Rico y Primer Vicepresidente de las Cortes de Cádiz (1810-1813) donde logró importantes reformas sociales, políticas y económicas en defensa de los derechos de su patria…
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En este lugar (antigua Barber?a Pi?ol) el compositor Noel Estrada ensay? por primera vez con el Tr?o Vegabaje?o la canci?n "En mi Viejo San Juan," grabada en 1946. In this place (the former Barbershop Pi?ol) the composer Noel Estrada for the fi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ERC_francisco-de-miranda_San-Juan-San-Juan.html
Precursor de la independencia hispanoamericana. General en Jefe del Ej?rcito del Norte en la revoluci?n Francesa. Luch? por la independencia de los Estados Unidos de Norteam?rica. Estuvo preso en esta ciudad por sus ideales liberales. Forerunn…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14VU_national-historic-site_San-Juan-San-Juan.html
Here in San Juan are the oldest European type masonry fortifications in United States Territory. The historic site includes the Spanish built forts of El Morro, El Canuelo, San Cristobal, Casa Blanca and the old city walls. These structures date f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14SV_the-main-plaza_San-Juan-San-Juan.html
This is Castillo San Felipe del Morro's main plaza, called the plaza de armas. Completed around 1780, it looked then much as you see it now. This plaza witnessed the activities of daily life in a Spanish fortress for more than a century. On the pl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14SU_a-defense-of-the-1st-order_San-Juan-San-Juan.html
Spain built Castillo San Felipe del Morro, the massive fortification in front of you to guard San Juan harbor. To control the harbor was to control the entrance to the Caribbean Sea and access to the riches of the New World. Puerto Rico was the fi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14SS_defending-san-juan_San-Juan-San-Juan.html
Castillo San Felipe del Morro, the fortress across the broad field in front of you, protected San Juan Harbor. It is part of an extensive fortification system built by Spain over a 250-year period. The major surviving parts of these fortifications…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14SJ_the-heart-of-san-cristobal_San-Juan-San-Juan.html
You are standing in the heart of Castillo San Cristobal, its main plaza, or plaza de armas. Completed by 1797, it looked then much as you see it now. This plaza de armas witnessed the daily events of military life in a Spanish fortress for more th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14SI_three-flags_San-Juan-San-Juan.html
The National Park Service flys three flags over the fortifications at San Juan National Historic Site: the Burgundy Cross, the flag of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the flag of the United States of America. The Burgundy Cross was the Spanis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14SG_firepower_San-Juan-San-Juan.html
This deck housed San Cristobal's main cannon battery. In terms of firepower, it was the strongest of the fortification's defenses. If attackers got past defenses farther east, cannon from here would drive them back. Did Spanish troops ever fire in…
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