カリフォルニア・ミッション
カリフォルニア・ミッション(英語: Spanish missions in California、スペイン語: Pueblo de misión)はスペインのカトリック教会(フランシスコ会士)によるヌエバ・エスパーニャ北西部(現在のアメリカ合衆国カリフォルニア州)への宣教活動とそのために建てられた伝道所などの施設の総称である。
It was accordingly ordered by the Mexican viceroy, the Marquis de Branciforte, that five new missions should be established, to be placed on lines of travel as near as might be between the existing missions..."
↑ Charles E.Chapman, Ph.D.,A History of California;The Spanish Period, p. 216: "It is usually stated that the Spanish court at Madrid received reports about Russian aggressions in the Pacific northwest, and sent orders to meet them by the occupation of Alta California, wherefore the expeditions of 1769 were made. This view contains only a smattering of the truth. It is evident from José de Gálvez's correspondence of 1768 that he and Carlos Francisco de Croix had discussed the advisability of an immediate expedition to Monterey, long before any word came from Spain about the Russian activities."