A handout accompanying the 1976 reenactment of the Anza expeditions presents the history of Juan Bautista de Anza's 1774-76 journeys between Sonora and northern California that were intended to open an overland route for colonization, found the mission and presidio of San Francisco, and fend off English and Russian encroachment along the northern Pacific coast.

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