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Died. August 20, 2013. (2013-08-20) (aged 82) Yuma, Arizona, U.S. Robert Wilson Kennerly (February 13, 1931 – August 20, 2013) was an American politician and a community leader in Yuma, Arizona. [1] [2] He served on the Yuma City Council from 1962 to 1966, as Chairman of the Yuma County Board of Supervisors from 1976 to 1984, and on the ...
Keegan Field. / 32.686684°N 114.611172°W / 32.686684; -114.611172. Keegan Field is an amateur sports field located in Yuma, Arizona, United States. The 4‐acre athletic facility contains a softball field with lights for night games and is part of the larger 32-acre Kennedy Park Athletic Complex. [1] It was named in honor of Frances ...
The Battle of Palo Hincado ( Palo Hincado Stands for "Kneeling Stick") was the first major battle of the Spanish reconquest of Santo Domingo of the Spanish colonial Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, that was occupied by the French in the Spanish West Indies. The site is in the present-day Dominican Republic, on the island of Hispaniola in the ...
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In Santiago de los Caballeros, the river turns to the northwest and flows by the Yaque del Norte Valley, the western part of the Cibao Valley. Its mouth is on Monte Cristi Bay, just to the south of the city of Monte Cristi, and empties into the Atlantic Ocean. Tributaries. Its main tributaries are the Bao, Ámina, Mao and Guayubín rivers.
Mission Puerto de Purísima Concepción was founded near what is now Yuma, Arizona, United States, on the California side of the Colorado River, in October 1780, by Father Francisco Garcés. The settlement was not part of the California mission chain but was administered as a part of the Spanish missions in Arizona .
The Yuma War was the name given to a series of United States military operations conducted in southern California and what is today southwestern Arizona from 1850 to 1853. The Quechan (also known as Yuma) were the primary opponent of the United States Army , though engagements were fought between the Americans and other native groups in the region.
Washington, 1857, Volume I. The Quechan ( Quechan: Kwatsáan 'those who descended'), or Yuma, are a Native American tribe who live on the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation on the lower Colorado River in Arizona and California just north of the Mexican border. [2] Despite their name, they are not related to the Quechua people of the Andes.