José de Escandón, 1st Count of Sierra Gorda, Spanish sergeant and politician (died 1770)

José de Escandón, 1st Count of Sierra Gorda

Spanish politician (1700–1770)

José de Escandón y Helguera, conde de Sierra was a Spanish Indian-fighter 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…