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Category Archives: The War with Mexico
President Polk and war with Mexico
In the Presidential campaign of 1844 two primary issues were of concern, the annexation of Texas, and the question of westward expansion or manifest destiny and the Oregon Territories, then claimed jointly by both the United States and Great Britain. … Continue reading
Posted in Before the gold, Noted gold rush people, The War with Mexico
Tagged California gold rush, gold rush, James K. Polk, James Knox Polk, James Polk, John C. Fremont, John Drake Sloat, John Putnam, Mexican War, Polk, President Polk, Robert Field Stockton, San Francisco, Stephen Watts Kearny
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Political intrigue in early California
A grandson of the man who gave Paul Revere the horse he used in his famous ride, Thomas O. Larkin landed at Yerba Buena Cove in April 1832. By the next year he had enough money to marry and in … Continue reading
Bronze Spanish cannon guard San Francisco
Battery Street, running from Pier 29 at the Embarcadero, across Broadway, past the Embarcadero Center to Market Street, is now a major artery in San Francisco’s bustling Financial District, but once it was an integral part of the waterfront of … Continue reading
Mariano Vallejo and the Bear Flag Revolt
Born in Monterey on July 4, 1807, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo was a powerful pro-America force during the troubled times that led up to the war with Mexico. The San Francisco Bay city of Vallejo was named for him and California’s … Continue reading
The New York Volunteers and Joseph Libbey Folsom
In the fall of 1846 Joseph Libbey Folsom left on a six-month voyage to California with the 770 man First Regiment of New York Volunteers under Colonel Jonathon D. Stevenson, a unit organized on the premise that each man would … Continue reading
The battle of Mule Hill
Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1794, Stephen Watts Kearny went to Columbia University before enlisting in the military. He served as a lieutenant in the War of 1812 and after that on the American frontier. In 1826 he was … Continue reading
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Tagged California gold rush, gold rush, Kit Carson, San Francisco, Stephen Watts Kearny
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The naval officer who won California
Born in Princeton, New Jersey on August 20, 1795, Robert Field Stockton could boast of a father who was a senator and a grandfather who signed the Declaration of Independence. He went to sea at 16, served during the War … Continue reading
The first American flag flies in California
John Drake Sloat was born in Sloatsburg, New York on July 6, 1781 two months after a British soldier killed his father. When his mother died soon after his grandparents raised him. A midshipman in the navy by 1800, he … Continue reading
How San Francisco got its name
Early in 1845 the sloop USS Portsmouth braved the turbulent waters at the tip of South America and headed north up the west coast. Captain John B. Montgomery was under orders to patrol off the San Francisco Bay as part … Continue reading
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Tagged California gold rush, John C. Fremont, Montgomery, POrtsmouth Square, San Francisco, Yerba Buena
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