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

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

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...

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

explore the western side of San Francisco Bay led by Captain Fernando Rivera y Moncada, renamed Portolá's Cañada de San Francisco to Cañada de San Andrés...

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...

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...

Spanish soldier, arrived in San Diego, California, in 1769 with Fernando Rivera y Moncada and served with the Gaspar de Portolà expedition and, along with...

arriving to the Pueblo de Los Ángeles as part of the efforts led by Fernando Rivera y Moncada, former Governor of the Californias. Subsequently, he settled...

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...