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New Spain

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New Spain

Viceroyalty, or province, of Spain's empire in the New World established 1536. It comprised present-day Mexico, Central America, the southern half of the USA, the Antilles, and the Philippine Islands. The main sources of wealth were silver mines at Potosí and Zacatecas, Mexico, and some huge cattle ranches. After a century of decline, New Spain grew steadily from 1770 until it fell to the independence movements 1810–21.



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I told him it would be very hard that I should be made the instrument of their deliverance, and that they should afterwards make me their prisoner in New Spain, where an Englishman was certain to be made a sacrifice, what necessity or what accident soever brought him thither; and that I had rather be delivered up to the savages, and be devoured alive, than fall into the merciless claws of the priests, and be carried into the Inquisition.
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