Gov. Borica → Viceroy — 'Sobre inconveniencia de construir fortalezas.' — ⭐⭐ With engineer Córdova's plans of the SF port + Santa Cruz ensenada: building fortifications capable of covering the Peninsula's main points 'erogaría crecidos gastos' — better to increase the cavalry and keep 2–3 ships always at San Francisco; '2 fragatas de guerra en San Fran.co bastarán' against single ships, and 'en aumentando la población todo hombre será miliciano.' ⭐ The governor himself declining to fortify — Spain's deliberate choice not to harden the coast. → the presidio-decay dossier, the Bay Area borderlands dossier, the 1793 Bodega failure.
| Date | 1796, Sep 21, Monterey (year) |
|---|---|
| From | Doc IV-28 |
| Series | State Papers, Sacramento |
| Tomo | I |
| Original tomo page | — |
| Savage copy page | 381–382 |
| Scan leaf | n380–n381 |
| Document type | Transcription |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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Doc IV-28, 1796, Sep 21, Monterey, State Papers, Sacramento, I, —, Archives of California, C-A 54, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.Cite the document by series, tomo and original tomo page, as the literature does; the C-A number locates it in the repository. To cite this catalogue entry itself, use https://archivesofcalifornia.com/record/ca54/ca54-d218.htmlThe originals of these records burned in the 1906 San Francisco fire. What survives is Thomas Savage’s 1870s copy, and this page describes that copy.
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