Jacinto Caamaño
Deceased Person
1759 – 1825
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Who was Jacinto Caamaño?
Jacinto Caamaño Moraleja was the leader of the last great Spanish exploration of Alaska and the Coast of British Columbia. He was a Knight of the Military Order of Calatrava. Born in Madrid, he came from an aristocratic Galician family, whose homestead was near Santiago de Compostela. His father was Juan Fernández de Caamaño, and his mother, Mariana Moraleja Alocen. He entered the Spanish Navy as an adventurer at 18, and two years later he was an Ensign.
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