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unusual facts about Vera Cruz


Lina Bo Bardi

When she died she left designs for a new São Paulo City Hall and a Cultural Centre for Vera Cruz.


Alfredo Chavero

On 25 June 1879, the government of Diaz ordered the execution of nine citizens of Vera Cruz who were suspected of conspiracy.

John McLeod Murphy

He served during the War with Mexico at Vera Cruz and Tabasco on board the USS Stromboli He resigned as a passed midshipman 10 May 1852 after his last mission as an assistant on John G. Barnard's survey of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

Mapeta schausi

It was described by Druce in 1895, and is known from Chile (including Rinconada) and Mexico (including Vera Cruz, the type location).

Michel de Grammont

In May 1683, de Grammont, van Hoorn and de Graaf sacked Vera Cruz in Mexico, taking 4,000 prisoners for ransom.Later Grammont raided Spanish Florida settlements, including St.Augustine and the Mocama mission province, forcing further southward migrations.

Wade H. Haislip

Haislip served in Vera Cruz, Mexico in 1914 after the Tampico Affair.

William Tharp

Nevertheless, like the unwanted War of 1812, Tharp and Delaware in general responded to the recruiter, and many served honorably from Buena Vista to Vera Cruz.


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1922 Atlantic hurricane season

Several fishing vessels sank and some ocean liners (including the now-infamous Morro Castle) were stranded outside Vera Cruz harbor because violent seas made it too dangerous to enter.

4th Field Artillery Regiment

The kampilan and crescent commemorate the services of the regiment against the Moros and in Vera Cruz.

Joaquín Rea

Rea and Santa Anna failed to take it before the approach of a relief column from Vera Cruz under Brig. Gen. Joseph Lane prompted Santa Anna to leave the siege to stop him.

Saint-Domingue

The rows of freebooting grew bigger; plundering raids, like those of Vera Cruz in 1683 or of Campêche in 1686, became increasingly numerous, and Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay, elder son of Jean Baptist Colbert and at the time Minister of the Navy, brought back some order by taking a great number of measures, including the creation of plantations of indigo and of cane sugar.

Vera Cruz Futebol Clube

Vera Cruz Futebol Clube, commonly known as Vera Cruz, is a Brazilian football club based in Vitória de Santo Antão, Pernambuco state.