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12 While most of Gálvez's energies were consumed in deal- ing with the humanitarian crisis faced by New Spain, he also addressed several profound and long-lasting reforms. Among them, and arguably the most important one, was the Instruction for the Government of the Internal Prov- inces of August 1786, which laid the foundation of a new policy concerning the expansion and settlement of the northern frontier of Mexico, today's southern states of the United States. 28 By the end of 1786 Bernardo de Gálvez was seriously ill. When he sensed his end was near, he got up from his sickbed, dressed in his full general's uniform, and received communion, standing up as he had done all his life while facing his enemies. He died on 10 November 1786. In his will he stated that his remains should be buried in Mexico City—in America. GONZALO M. QUINTERO SARAVIA, J.S.D. & Ph.D. (Lima, Peru, 1964) is a member (académico corre- spondiente) of the Spanish Royal Historical Society (Real Academia de la Historia) and of the Colombian Historical Society (Academia Colombiana de Historia). In the 2015– 2016 academic year he was a Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and Visiting Scholar in the Department of History in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at e Johns Hopkins University. Author of several books and articles on eighteenth-century North America and the Caribbean, his full-length biography of Bernardo de Gálvez will soon be published in the United States by University of North Car- olina Press, Chapel Hill. NOTES 1. is and the following quotes in this section are from Bernardo de Gálvez, Notes and Considerations on the War with the Apache Indians in the Provinces of New Spain (Noticia y reflexiones sobre la guerra que se tiene con los indios apaches en las provincias de Nueva España), Madrid, circa 1771, Mnss., 43, 40-41, 61 and 59. In Blas Osés, documentación varia, Mss., México, 1817, e Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, e Steiner Collection, Bush Centre, John's University, Col- legeville, MN Steiner 27, Blas Osés, Manuscritos, n. 2, pp. 35–66. For an English translation, see: Elisabeth A. H. John, "A Cautionary Exercise in Apache Historiography Fig. 10. HM King Felipe VI and HM Queen Letizia viewed Gálvez's portrait in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Room during their first official visit to Washington, D.C., on 16 September 2015. Joining them were ( om le) Senators John Barrasso (WY), Robert Menendez (NJ), and Tim Kaine (VA). THE CAPITOL DOME