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  2. Mission San Fernando Rey de España - Wikipedia

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    Website. Official website. Mission San Fernando Rey de España is a Spanish mission in the Mission Hills community of Los Angeles, California. The mission was founded on 8 September 1797 at the site of Achooykomenga, and was the seventeenth of the twenty-one Spanish missions established in Alta California. Named for Saint Ferdinand, the mission ...

  3. Operation Postmaster - Wikipedia

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    None. 29 crew and one merchant ship with 2 boats captured. Operation Postmaster was a British special operation conducted on the Spanish island of Fernando Po, now known as Bioko, off West Africa in the Gulf of Guinea, during the Second World War. The mission was carried out by the Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF) and the Special Operations ...

  4. Convento Building (Mission San Fernando) - Wikipedia

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    The building. The Convento is a large two-story building, measuring approximately 243 feet (74 m) long and 50 feet (15 m) wide. It has four-foot-thick adobe walls and was built in stages between approximately 1808 and 1822. [ 2] The long portico, sometimes referred to as the colonnade, in front of the building has 20 arches and is the most ...

  5. Misión San Fernando Rey de España de Velicatá - Wikipedia

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    Cochimí. Mission San Fernando Velicatá ( Spanish: Misión San Fernando Rey de España de Velicatá) was a Spanish mission located about 56 km (35 mi) southeast of El Rosario in Baja California, Mexico. The mission was founded in 1769 by Franciscan missionary Junípero Serra and was the only mission founded by Franciscan missionaries in what ...

  6. Mission San Francisco de Asís - Wikipedia

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    The Mission San Francisco de Asís (Spanish: Misión San Francisco de Asís), also known as Mission Dolores, is a historic Catholic church complex in San Francisco, California. Operated by the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the complex was founded in the 18th century by Spanish Catholic missionaries. The mission contains two historic buildings:

  7. Lopez Adobe - Wikipedia

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    May 6, 1971. López Adobe, located at 1100 Pico Street in San Fernando, California, is one of the two oldest private residences in the San Fernando Valley. [2] Built in 1882 by early settlers of the San Fernando Valley a short distance from the San Fernando Mission, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

  8. Architecture of the California missions - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The architecture of the California missions was influenced by several factors, those being the limitations in the construction materials that were on hand, an overall lack of skilled labor, and a desire on the part of the founding priests to emulate notable structures in their Spanish homeland. While no two mission complexes are identical ...

  9. Spanish missions in California - Wikipedia

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    Mission San Fernando Rey de España: 1,367 children baptized 1,080 people in 1819 [34] 965 children died [34] "It was not strange that the fearful death rate both of children and adults at the missions sometimes frightened the neophytes into running away." [34] 6 Mission San Buenaventura: 3,805 baptisms total (1,909 children) [35] 1,330 people ...