José de Escandón, 1st Count of Sierra Gorda

José de Escandón y Helguera, conde de Sierra (May 19, 1700, Soto de la Marina, Cantabria, Spain – September 10, 1770, Querétaro, New Spain) was a Spanish fighter against indigenous people in New Spain and the founder and first governor of the colony of Nuevo Santander, which extended from the Pánuco River in the modern-day Mexican state of Tamaulipas to the Guadalupe River in the modern-day U.S. state of Texas. == Military career before Nuevo Santander == Escandón was one of three sons of Juan de Escandón and Francisca de la Helguera.

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