Antonio de Ulloa

The people living here, the Creoles living here Find out that they're no longer French and that they've been handed over to the Spanish, and they don't want to be Spanish.

And the first governor who arrives, Antonio Ulloa, he arrives and there's a lot of, he's the wrong personality, didn't handle things well for a population that was anxious and really not, didn't wanna be Spanish, so it was just, it was like a bad marriage.

And ultimately, the people of this area revolted, and they expelled him from the colony, and they made it very official.

They did it through the Superior Council, and feeling pretty good about themselves.

Okay

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And, and he's often labeled as a governor, but in fact he was never governor of New Orleans.

He literally was brought in just to put down the rebellion, make sure another rebellion doesn't happen, and kind of take an assessment of the colony, state of affairs.

No

... or, no, the first one was Antonio de Ulloa.

Ulloa.

Exactly.

Because if you were the average Joe living and working in New Orleans, you were not happy about the whole Spain taking over your city thing.

The first Spanish governor of Louisiana, Antonio de Ulloa, arrived in New Orleans in March 1766, and as governor, started changing things over, as you'd expect.

Switching to Spanish rule also meant switching to Spanish trade rules, though.

More importantly, trade restrictions that were in place at the time, including not being allowed to export to places like Great Britain.