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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 4: a lost Capital. (search)
eir claims? The lower ranks of people admit some taint of blood; but in the church, the plaza, and the barber's shop, no man is less than don and caballero, with a pedigree long enough to amaze a Gael and satisfy a Basque. No house in Monterey is fifty years old. Fiftysix years ago, the city built by Don Jose tivera and the Spanish friars, was levelled to the earth. Captain Buchard, a French pirate or privateer, ran into the port with two small frigates, flying the flag of Spain. Governor Sola, acting for his royal master, masked a battery near the water's edge, and having placed this battery in charge of Don Jesus de Vallejo, waited the piratical attack. Next day, on Buchard laying one of his ships athwart the castle, Don Jesus opened fire and forced him to withdraw. Enraged by this repulse, Buchard lowered his boats, and sent his men ashore. Don Jesus left his guns, and bolted for the woods, firing a powder train, which blew the castle into dust. Buchard gave the town t