The official foundation date of Los Angeles is September 4, 1781, when tradition has it the forty-four "pobladores" gathered at San Gabriel Mission along with two priests from the Mission and set out with an escort of four soldiers for the site that Father Juan Crespí had chosen over a decade earlier. El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles, (Spanish for The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels) is the original, official long version of the name of the town founded by the Pobladores.