Juan Bautista de Anza: Sunday, April 29 @ 4:00pmin Cady Hall

Juan Bautista de Anza, (1736-1788), was a Basque born in Cuquiárachi, Sonora, Mexico in 1736. His father, who had the same name, was born in Hernani, Gipuzkua, Euskadi in 1693 and came to New Spain in 1712. He eventually became the Captain of the Presidio of Fronteras, twenty miles south of Douglas, Arizona, in Sonora, Mexico. Apaches killed him when Juan Bautista, Jr. was only three years old. Growing up in Sonora (and what is today Arizona), young Juan was involved early in Apache attacks and uprisings by other Indian groups. He joined the frontier military at age fifteen and eventually became the captain of Tubac Presidio.

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