Fernando Javier Rivera y Moncada (c. 1725 – July 18, 1781) was a Mexican-born soldier of the Spanish Empire who served in The Californias (Las Californias)...

lieutenant-governor by another veteran of the Portolá expedition, Fernando Rivera y Moncada. In 1777, Fages was posted to Sonora to fight the Apaches, where...

actor Emmanuel Rivera (born 1996), Puerto Rican baseball player Erica Rivera (born 1988), American actress and singer Fernando Rivera y Moncada (1725–1781)...

land party, led by Fernando Rivera y Moncada, left from the Franciscan Misión San Fernando Velicatá on March 24, 1769. With Rivera was Juan Crespí, famed...

deep-seated disagreements with the missionaries. He joined with Captain Fernando Rivera y Moncada often in judging and being too suspicious of the missionaries...

built after Fernando Rivera y Moncada, many of his soldiers, Francisco Garcés and his local missionaries, were killed at Mission San Pedro y San Pablo de...

at Santa Barbara. Croix put the California lieutenant governor Fernando Rivera y Moncada in charge of recruiting colonists for the new settlements. He...

families and their livestock overland to settle. Military commander Fernando Rivera y Moncada led the guard, until killed during a civil resistance uprising...

Spanish soldier who arrived in San Diego, California in 1769 with Fernando Rivera y Moncada, in recognition of his military service, received the roughly...

would become the first Governor of the Californias. Captain Don Fernando Rivera y Moncada (1725–1781) – soldier and became the third Governor of The Californias...