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The Alamo de Parras - 2nd Flying Company - The temporary home of the Alamo de Parras site, before the Texas Revolution. There are resources for research into the soldiers and life the in the Spanish and Mexican period, drawings, glossaries, pictures of artifacts and all kinds of information.
Calderon's Company - A 16th Century New World Garrison, is a group of living-historians based at De Soto National Memorial, in Bradenton, Florida. The organization is named after Captain Pedro Calderón, who was left in charge of the base camp and port, when Hernando de Soto began his entrada into La Florida in June of 1539.
California Military Museum: Spanish & Mexican Period - Contains links to articles and sites of interest to the Spanish Coloninal historical interpreter. Includes a collection of original paintings, drawings and photographs from Spanish Colonial to modern times.
Che-lo-han Freetrappers: Soldado de Cuera page - This part of the Freetrappers website has quotes (unattributed) and a drawing of a Soldado de Cuera.
Hispanic America USA (1stBooks) - Spanish Colonial Living History pages that contain fairly old information on organizations and events. Part of a collection of pages that discuss the contributions of Hispanics to the USA. Useful for old contact information, even with broken links and missing graphics.
Living History Society at the Mission San Juan Capistrano - This page is part of the larger Mission San Juan Capistrano site and contains info on their Living History Society and when they present. Within the larger site, there are event listings, historical info and pictures of the mission. There is also an application to be admitted to the Society.
Los Soldados: Soldiers of the Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara - This is the official home of Los Soldados, a reenactment group dedicated to portraying the Spanish Soldados de Cuera at the Presidio of Santa Barbara. Very , lots of information.
Original drawings of 1720 Soldados de Cuera - The Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, NM has the Segasser Hide Paintings on display. This is the only place on the web where I've found any representations of these important 1720 drawings. Click on the thumbnail to bring up a bigger picture.
Presidio San Agustin de Tucson - The Tucson Presidio Trust site is attempting to restore the Presidio to create a national historic and educational area. Includes pictures and an event calendar.
Soldados listserver on Yahoo! Groups - This is a discussion listserv, with historians, reenactors and illustrators as members. There are also pictures and articles to download, as well as an event calendar.
Spanish Colonial Costume Suggestions - This website was created by Doña Pátryka Chaves de Tachick to assist members of the New Mexican Hispanic Cultural Preservation League in costuming themselves for their events. While it is a bit disorganized and has some pictures originating on other sites, it also has some pictures and links not found on other sites in the directory.
Spanish Colonial Military Artifacts - History, Archaeology, Relics - This site is dedicated to the exhibition and interpretation of ca. 1539-1821 Spanish colonial military artifacts from the former Spanish Floridas and Louisiana. Emphasis is on such uniform-related materials as buttons, buckles, and insignia.
Spanish Marines - a short history - This unofficial site for the Marine Corps of Spain has some history and pictures of interest to Spanish Colonial reenactors, especially the uniform pictures at the end of the page.
Wills of a Father and Son and A Contribution to the American Revolution - This article, written by a descendiente (Virginia Sanchez) describes her research into the wills of New Mexican soldados around 1800. The equipment that is listed in the wills makes this very useful to the Spanish Colonial (Presidial) reenactor. In addition, there are links to books on the sidebar that also might be of interest to more general Spanish Colonial history. Unfortunately, there are broken links on this and other pages within larger 1stBooks site, including the link for Virginia's genealogy page Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.