Luis de las Casas

Luis de las Casas y Aragorri (Sopuerta, Spain, 25 August 1745 – Puerto de Santa María, 19 July 1800) was Spanish Governor of Cuba and the Commander in Chief of the Province of Louisiana and the Floridas.[1]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is de las Casas and the second or maternal family name is Aragorri.
Portrait of Luis de Las Casas by Juan del Rio, circa 1790s

Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia

References
  1. archives.nd.edu "Calendar (1797/06/22) Proceedings for the provision of a chaplain for the Third Battalion of the Registration of Louisiana at Pensacola"


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