Episode 23: Los Angeles, Year One - The Founding of Los Angeles (Spanish and Mexican Rule of Los Angeles)

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Junípero Serra, statue at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel in San Gabriel, California. © S. Greg Panosian—iStock/Getty Images

Open wide for duck stuffed inside a turkey stuffed inside a podcast! Join us in giving thanks for the founding of Los Angeles as we explore the very beginnings of the city from the founding during the Spanish era (5:54), into the Mexican era and ending with the (almost) climactic battle against the American army as they took control...for now (40:25).