An extraordanary Atlantic life : Sebastián Nicolás Calvo de la Puerta y O'Farrill, Marqués de Casa-Calvo /

Although not widely known in Louisiana, Sebastián Calvo de la Puerta was an interim governor for two years (1799-1801), during an era that most historians have ignored. He came from a Spanish family that settled in Havana in the sixteenth century. It gradually became very wealthy because of sugar, b...

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