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    Esteban Rodríguez Miró y Sabater, KOS (1744 – June 4, 1795), also known as Esteban Miro and Estevan Miro, was a Spanish army officer and governor of the...
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    law) was a 1786 law enacted by the Spanish Governor of Louisiana Esteban Rodríguez Miró that forced black women to wear a tignon headscarf. The law was...
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    in the city's European Creole community. Her uncle by marriage, Esteban Rodríguez Miró, was governor of the Spanish American provinces of Louisiana and...
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    had to pay a hefty tariff. Wilkinson met with Spanish Governor Esteban Rodríguez Miró and managed to convince him to allow Kentucky to have a trading...
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  • of an influential Creole family that was allied by marriage to Esteban Rodríguez Miró, one of the last Spanish Governors of Louisiana. He was brought...
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  • comedian Esteban Rodríguez Miró (1744–1795), Spanish marshal and governor Francisca Saperas Mirò (1851–1933), Spanish anarchist Feliza Teresa Miro (born...
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    Statistical Area. This was part of the Miro District (also spelled Mero), named after the Spanish Governor Esteban Rodríguez Miró of what was then Louisiana on...
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    Cumberland Association and was named for Spanish territorial governor Esteban Rodríguez Miró. President George Washington appointed William Blount as territorial...
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  • trade American products with the Spanish. He persuaded Governor Esteban Rodríguez Miró to give Kentucky a monopoly on the Mississippi River trade. Wilkinson...
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    municipal building, army barracks, armory, and jail. Colonial Governor Esteban Rodríguez Miró set up tents for the homeless. The fire area stretched between Dauphine...
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    North Louisiana. As governor of Louisiana, Esteban Rodríguez Miró had Fort Miro built in 1791. Fort Miro changed its name to Monroe to commemorate the...
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    Wilkinson, who named Mero St. after his paymaster, Louisiana Governor Esteban Rodríguez Miró. Anne Elizabeth Wilson (1901–1946), writer, poet, editor George...
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    land. He also considered an alliance with Spain, whose Governor Esteban Rodríguez Miró tried to sway Sevier, but the American eventually abandoned that...
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    Real Díaz y A. M. Heredia Herrera. Matías de Gálvez (1783–1784), por M. Rodríguez del Valle y A. Conejo Díez de la Cortina. Bernardo de Gálvez (1785–1786)...
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    2 – The Tignon law is enacted by Spanish Governor of Louisiana Esteban Rodríguez Miró, to force black women to wear a tignon headscarf. June 6 – Nathaniel...
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    into the Mero District, named after Spanish territorial governor Esteban Rodríguez Miró. In 1795, a survey conducted by the territorial legislature found...
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  • response, Charles III of Spain demanded Louisiana colonial governor Esteban Rodríguez Miró to "'establish public order and proper standards of morality,' with...
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    sumptuary laws passed in 1786 under the administration of Governor Esteban Rodriguez Miró. Called the tignon laws, they prescribed and enforced oppressive...
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  • from the Spanish governor of Louisiana and Spanish West Florida, Esteban Rodríguez Miró. He left Wilkinson's employ and set out to trade with the Indian...
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    Franklin and the Cumberland District began secret negotiations with Esteban Rodríguez Miró, governor of Spanish Louisiana, to deliver their regions to the...
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    of Louisiana In office 1791–1797 Monarch Charles IV Preceded by Esteban Rodríguez Miró Succeeded by Manuel Gayoso de Lemos 27th President of the Real Audiencia...
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    began auspiciously but was discouraged by Louisiana's governor, Esteban Rodríguez Miró, who considered Morgan's infant colony as flawed due to its lack...
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    2 – The Tignon law is enacted by Spanish Governor of Louisiana Esteban Rodríguez Miró, to force black women to wear a tignon headscarf. June 6 – Nathaniel...
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  • Orleans Fire of 1788, and in 1789 he was again arrested by Governor Esteban Rodríguez Miró. St. Maxent eventually cleared himself of the charges, but the process...
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    began auspiciously but was discouraged by Louisiana's governor, Esteban Rodríguez Miró, who considered Morgan's infant colony as flawed due to its lack...
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  • 8, 1754. He was a nephew of the governor of Spanish Louisiana, Esteban Rodríguez Miró. Folch studied mathematics and engineering at the Royal Military...
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  • (1721–1790) 1770 1777 5 Bernardo de Gálvez (1746–1786) 1777 1785 6 Esteban Rodríguez Miró (1744–1795) 1785 1791 7 Francisco Luis Héctor de Carondelet (1748–1807)...
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    Carlos III in 1796. His nearest allies appear to have been Governor Esteban Rodríguez Miró, Père Antoine (Antonio de Sedella), and the de La Ronde family,...
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    as helping to plan escapes from plantations. In 1784, while Gov. Esteban Rodríguez Miró travelled to West Florida to treat with the Muscogee, Chickasaw...
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    and the Texan city of Galveston is named in his honor. Governor Esteban Rodríguez Miró's tenure witnessed two major fires that ravaged half of New Orleans...
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