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Diego de Vargas
Zapata y Luján Ponce de León (1643-1704)
- Conquistador español
del siglo XVII que se apoderó definitivamente de Nuevo
Méjico después de haber tomado Santa Fe y haber
derrotado a los indios pueblos.
- c.1643-1704, Spanish
governor and captain general of New Mexico, b. Spain. As governor
(1691-97) he reconquered (1692) and resettled New Mexico for
the Spanish after the Pueblo revolt in 1680 had driven the Spanish
settlers from the region. In 1696 he suppressed another Pueblo
revolt. He was reappointed governor in 1703 and conducted a campaign
against the Apaches in 1704. (www.infoplease.com)
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