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Luis de Onís y González-Vara

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Spanish diplomat (1762-1827)

SpainWritersLived 1762 to 1827 · aged 64
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Luis de Onís y González-Vara was a Spanish career diplomat who served as Spain's envoy to the United States from 1809 to 1819, and co-negotiated the Adams-Onís Treaty with United States Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, by which Spain ceded Florida to the United States, the United States renounced its claims to...

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Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
Knight of the Order of Carlos III
Décoration du Lys

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Luis de Onís y González-Vara was a Spanish career diplomat who served as Spain's envoy to the United States from 1809 to 1819, and co-negotiated the Adams-Onís Treaty with United States Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, by which Spain ceded Florida to the United States, the United States renounced its claims to Texas, and a transcontinental boundary was defined to the Pacific Ocean.

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Lived 1762 to 1827 · aged 64
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