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Was pio pico the general of the mexican armada?

What was his role?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Huh - - - the Armada is a reference to the Spanish Armada.... Mexico never had much of a Navy - - - that said the only Pio Pico I know was Governor of California when Americans seized the region.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/p%c3%ado_pi...
"""Pico served twice as Governor of Alta California, taking office the first time from Manuel Victoria in 1832, when Victoria was deposed for refusing to follow through with orders to secularize mission properties. As governor pro tempore and Vocal of the Departmental Assembly, he set forth with secularization, handing the reigns of governor to Zamorano and Echeandia to respectively govern the north and south after only twenty days in office. In 1844 he was chosen as a leader of the California Assembly, and began his second term as governor, succeeding the unpopular Manuel Micheltorena in 1845. Pico made Los Angeles the state capital. In the year leading up to the Mexican-American War, Governor Pico was outspoken in favor of California becoming a British Protectorate rather than American territory.

He actively challenged the government of Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado (1837 to 1849) and was imprisoned on several occasions. During the Mexican-American War, when U.S. troops occupied Los Angeles and San Diego in 1846, Pico fled to Baja California, Mexico, to argue a case for sending troops to defend California before the Mexican Congress as well as prevent himself being taken prisoner. After the war, Pico returned to Los Angeles in 1848, successfully surviving the Mexican-American transition after the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In 1853 he was elected to the Los Angeles Common Council, but did not assume office. Pico also had a run in 1834 for office as first alcalde (mayor) of San Diego, but was unsuccessful.
Epilogue
After the Mexican-American War Pico dedicated himself to his businesses. However, gambling, losses to loan sharks, bad business practices, being defrauded, and the 1883 flood ruined him financially. He was forced to liquidate his real estate holdings. Impoverished, he died in 1894 at the home of his daughter Joaquina Pico Moreno in Los Angeles. He was buried in a modest tomb in El Campo Santo Cemetery at the Homestead Museum in the present City of Industry.

Pico had three nationalities during his life: he was born a Creole in New Spain, was later a Mexican citizen, then a United States citizen. He was known for his extravagant lifestyle, with fine clothes, expensive furnishings, and heavy gambling.

In 1927, P㭯 Pico State Historic Park was created from the ruins of his Rancho de Bartolo (El Ranchito) in Whittier, and Casa Pico mansion. Pico Boulevard, a major east-west thoroughfare in Los Angeles, is named after the former governor. An elementary and junior high school in Los Angeles' Koreatown district is also named in his honor. Also, Pico Rivera, a city located in southeastern Los Angeles County, is named for him.""

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