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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 1: early recollections of California. 1846-1848. (search)
n in Monterey a week; that the Californians had broken out into an insurrection; that the naval fleet under Commodore Stockton was all down the coast about San Diego; that General Kearney had reached the country, but had had a severe battle at San Pascual, and had been worsted, losing several officers and men, himself and others wounded; that war was then going on at Los Angeles; that the whole country was full of guerrillas, and that recently at Yerba Buena the alcalde, Lieutenant Bartlett, Unre Stockton, as to the right to control affairs in California. Kearney had with him only the fragments of the two companies of dragoons, which had come across from New Mexico with him, and had been handled very roughly by Don Andreas Pico, at San Pascual, in which engagement Captains Moore and Johnson, and Lieutenant Hammond, were ]tilled, and Kearney himself wounded. There remained with him Colonel Swords, quartermaster; Captain H. S. Turner, First Dragoons; Captains Emory and Warner, Topogr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), California (search)
t, capture Los Angeles......Aug. 13, 1846 First number of an American newspaper, the Californian, issued at Monterey by Robert Semple and Walter Colton......Aug. 15, 1846 Commodore Stockton proclaimed governor......Aug. 17, 1846 Mexicans recapture Los Angeles......Sept. 29-30, 1846 Gen. Stephen W. Kearny, under orders from Washington to proceed from New Mexico to California and establish a provisional government, arrives at Santa Maria......Dec. 5, 1846 Indecisive battle at San Pascual between Mexican Gen. Don Andres Pico, and General Kearny, who is twice wounded......Dec. 6, 1846 Battle of San Gabriel; decisive defeat of the Mexicans......Jan. 8-9, 1847 Los Angeles regained by the Americans......Jan. 10, 1847 Colonel Fremont assumes the civil government under commission from Commodore Stockton......Jan. 19, 1847 General Kearny, under instructions from the President, issues a proclamation from Monterey as governor, and directs Colonel Fremont to deliver in p
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 6: White conquerors. (search)
f the English settlers; well, you look at them a good deal. Ha, ha! you think me a monstrous wicked fellow: Lovelace, Lothario, Don Juan all in one! Bless you, it's a fearful bore. Don't pray for a country in which there are no White women, that's my advice! Do you suppose I prefer a dirty squaw who only speaks ten words of English, to a rosy lassie out of Kent? All fiddlesticks. Our proper helps are parted from us by an ocean and a continent. What can a fellow do? This country yields us squaws, just as it gives us fruit and herbs; and till you send me that rosy lassie out of Kent, I must put up with squaws from San Pascual. Seeing his fields invaded, and his women carried off, the herdsman's blood boils up. Are not these woods and fields his feeding-ground? Are not these girls his natural mates? No one can deny that these pastures were the properties of his mother's tribe. Is he not the proper heir of these hunting-grounds, the natural husband of these Indian squaws?
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the American army. (search)
f their motions, that their adversaries, like the Curiatii, had allowed themselves to become separated, they wheeled round abruptly, and their long lances unhorsed their too confiding adversaries one after the other. Kearny himself received several wounds. Fortunately for him, the heavy cavalry had time to come up; and notwithstanding the somewhat unmartial appearance of the animals, its approach was sufficient to disperse the Mexicans. If the Americans had been beaten in the battle of San Pascual, they would inevitably have perished of hunger and misery. Although victorious, they were obliged to repel for two days longer the attacks of their adversaries. 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 on the 11th of December the succor they had so greatly needed. Resuming his march after fifteen days rest, with his troops reinforced by more than four hund
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Notes. (search)
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