Salvador Fidalgo y Lopegarcia was a Spanish explorer.
12 Facts About Salvador Fidalgo
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Salvador Fidalgo commanded an exploring expedition for Spain to Alaska and the Pacific Northwest during the late 18th century.
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Salvador Fidalgo joined the Spanish Navy as a guardiamarina at the Real Colegio de Guardiamarinas in Cadiz.
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Salvador Fidalgo graduated in 1775 and was given the rank of Alferez de Fragata.
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Salvador Fidalgo was chosen to be a member of Vicente Tofino's team of cartographers working during the 1780s on the first atlas of Spain's ports and coastal waters.
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Salvador Fidalgo served on various assignments in the Mediterranean and saw action against the British and Portuguese.
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In 1790, at the direction of Juan Vicente de Guemes Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo, the Viceroy of New Spain, Salvador Fidalgo was sent to New Spain's northernmost settlement, San Lorenzo de Nootka, just off today's Vancouver Island.
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Salvador Fidalgo continued along the Alaskan coast, reaching today's Gravina Point, where the same ceremony re-asserting Spanish sovereignty was performed.
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In 1792 Salvador Fidalgo was assigned to establish a Spanish post at Neah Bay, on the southwestern coast of the Strait of Juan de Fuca in present-day US state of Washington.
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The post at Neah Bay was abandoned and Salvador Fidalgo was recalled to Nootka Sound.
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In 1794 Salvador Fidalgo was promoted to Capitan de Fragata.
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Salvador Fidalgo died on September 27,1803, in Tacubaya, near Mexico City.