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Additions and corrections to Vols.
I. And II.
since the publication of the preceding volumes we have received a large number of documents from
America, either recently printed or in manuscript, and their examination has enabled us to detect some inaccuracies of detail in those volumes: some of them have even thrown a new light upon events which we have narrated.
Recognizing it as the first duty of an historian to dispel as promptly and as far as he can the clouds of error which so readily gather about and obscure the truth, we shall not wait for a second edition (supposing that one be issued) to point out to our readers the principal errors into which scanty or inaccurate information may have led us.
We herewith append these corrections, indicating the volume and page to which each note refers.
Volume 1.
Page 35.
Although victorious at the battle of
San Pascual, the
Americans were still obliged to repel the attacks of their adversaries for two days. Fortunately for them, the naval division of
Commodore Stockton was waiting for them at
San Diego, and a detachment of marines and soldiers, sent by the latter, brought them a relief of which they stood greatly in need.
After resting for a fortnight at
San Diego,
Kearney's small band, reinforced by more than four hundred and fifty men, resumed its march under the supreme command of
Stockton.
On the 8th of January, 1847, the
Americans dispersed the enemy's forces that had rallied against them at Rio San Gabriel, and beat them again the next day before Los
Angelos.
After a violent quarrel with
Stockton, who disputed the command with him,
Kearney continued his march, overtook a Mormon battalion on the 21st, which had arrived from the
North, and finally occupied
Upper California, in conjunction with
Lieutenant-colonel Fremont.
