In the early 1500's, the Bourbon Empire reached an agreement with the Vatican to thoroughly colonize the New World. In 1542 Juan Cabrillo set the flag of Spain on a beach near what was to become the Pueblo de Los Angeles while Natives crowded and watched as he named it the "Bay of the Smokes." An early smog indicator. They wondered why he spoke loudly to the winds, but not to them, as if they didn't exist. In 1767 Gaspar de Portola led the expulsion of the Jesuits in Baja California and was assigned to lead the Spanish invasion forces into Alta California. The Franciscan replacements were now...