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Juan Nepomuceno Seguín (1806-1890) was a Tejano soldier in the Texas Revolution, commissioned as a captain of cavalry by Stephen F. Austin, later a colonel under General Sam Houston, participated in the Siege of Béxar in 1835, served as a...

Juan Ponce de León (1474-1521) was a Spanish conquistador who led expeditions from Puerto Rico to the coast of Florida, giving the region its current name. He also served as the first governor of Puerto Rico and discovered the Gulf Stream...

Juan de Grijalva (aka Grijalba, 1489-1527) was a Spanish conquistador who explored the eastern coast of Mexico in 1518. His notable achievements included a demonstration that the Yucatán Peninsula was just that and not, as previously thought...

Portrait of Juan Seguín, oil on canvas painting by Thomas Jefferson Wright, 1838. The only known portrait of Juan Nepomuceno Seguín (1806-1890), this painting depicts the Tejano (Mexican Texan) leader who joined the Texas Revolution, serving...

A 17th-century coloured engraving of Juan Ponce de León (c. 1460-1521), the conquistador who became governor of Puerto Rico and, landing in Florida, gave the region that name in 1513.

A portrait engraving of Juan de Grijalva (1489-1527), the Spanish conquistador who explored the coast of Mexico in 1518.

A map of the Juan Fernández Islands in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The islands famously hosted the marooned mariner Alexander Selkirk (1676-1721) from 1704 to 1709. Selkirk inspired the title character of Daniel Defoe's celebrated novel...

Juan Seguín's grave and monument in the City of Seguin, Texas. Photograph by Billy Hathorn, 2013.

A detail of a mural showing Juan de Grijalva (1489-1527), the Spanish conquistador who explored the coast of Mexico in 1518, meeting a Maya chief on the Tabasco coast.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe, is a title for a particular image of Mary, Mother of Jesus, as she appeared in the New World in the years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico. A beloved symbol of mercy, acceptance...