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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1 8 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), California (search)
hanges for provisions, despite the Spanish restrictions on trade; he wins also the affections of Doña Concepcion, daughter of the commandant, Don Jose Arguello......May 21, 1806 Indians across the bay from San Francisco troubling Spanish; Alfirez Moraga marches against them and defeats and scatters the tribe......May 22, 1810 Russians establish a fort at Ross, 18 miles north of Bodega, having settled the vicinity in 1807-10......Sept. 30, 1812 Gov. Jose Joaquin de Arrillaga dies at Soledad mission; Capt. Jose Arquello succeeds......July 24, 1814 Rumors of revolutions in South America; proclamation from Gov. Pablo Vincente de Sola, and preparations for defence......June 23, 1816 Mission of San Rafael founded......Dec. 14, 1817 French Capt. Hippolyte Bouchard ( the pirate Buchar ) appears with two vessels of thirty-eight and twenty-six guns under the flag of Buenos Ayres; his real purpose is unknown, but, after summoning Monterey and other places on the coast to surren
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 6: White conquerors. (search)
r, on a creek called Sanjon del Alisal, we find a new city, called Salinas, rising from the earth. Nine years ago the Rio Salinas flowed through a desert, over which wild deer and yet wilder herdsmen roved in search of grass and pools. The soil was dry, the herbage scant. Bears, foxes, and coyotes disputed every ravine with the hunters. Ducks and widgeons covered the lagunes and creeks. A trapper's gun was rarely heard among these hills, and save the ruins of an old Mission-house at Soledad, no trace of civil life was found between the heights of Monte Toro and the summits of Gavilano range. To-day, a pretty English town, with banks, hotels, and churches, greets you on the bridge of Sanjon del Alisal. A main street, broad, well-paved and neatly built, runs out for nearly half a mile. Unlike the timber-sheds of Monterey, the stores and banks of this new town are built of brick, striking, as one may say, their roots into the earth. A fine hotel adorns the principal street,
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 7: Hybrids. (search)
hich seemed to him the lesser of two evils, the viceroy formed three camps of refuge, which he called Free Towns; a first camp at Los Angeles in the South, a second camp near Santa Cruz in the Centre, and a third camp at San Jose in the North. These camps were ruled by martial law, and wholly separated from the great Franciscan Commonwealth. About Los Angeles he gathered in the refuse from San Diego and Santa Barbara; about Santa Cruz he gathered in the refuse of San Carlos, San Juan, and Soledad; about San Jose he gathered in the refuse of Santa Clara and San Francisco. Within these camps the veterans and their savage progeny were to dwell, but they were not to wander from their limits, under penalty of stripes, imprisonment and death. Some strangers joined the settlers in these Free Town; few, and of an evil sort; quacks, gamblers, girl-buyers, whiskey sellers; all the abominable riffraff of a Spanish camp. From these vile sources, nearly all the present Hybrids of the count
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 12: Catholic missions. (search)
sixty years, making the one great effort that has ever yet been made to save the natives of this coast. Ten or twelve missions were engaged in carrying on the work; missions at San Diego and Santa Barbara, at San Luis Obisco and San Carlos, at Soledad and San Juan, at San Jose and San Francisco; but the heart and brain, the rule and method, of this great Christian experiment, were at Santa Clara. Here the provincial had his seat. Here strangers in the country were received. Hither came eveall things, the goodlooking and profligate young women. They flaunt round in gaudy finery, while their elders are naked or clothed in rags. No fiscal from Santa Clara ever told a truer and a darker story of what he found in Santa Barbara and Soledad. Aware how much had been done by the Franciscans under great and ever-growing difficulties, the Americans have lately paid those fathers the compliment of restoring their system-so far as a Protestant people and a secular government can rest
The Daily Dispatch: March 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
ef topic of conversation in financial circles. There are wide differences of opinion with regard to the details of the measure. The New York Herald urges a tax upon cotton, wheat, corn, turpentine, sugar, and rice. Important from Mexico. The steamship Columbia, at New York from Havana, brings important news from Mexico, dated at Vera Cruz on the 20th of February. It is in substance as follows: The Spanish General Prim and the Mexican General Dobindo had held a conference at Soledad on the part of the European Powers and the Government of the Republic.--The result was that the allied troops are to be permitted to pass the Chiquihuitt — the key of the Valley of Mexico — and to garrison the cities of Cordova, Orizaba and Teheran.--When they are in these positions the conferences are to be resumed, Spain and France promising to resume their status in quo at Vera Cruz, provided they are not satisfactory. The allies were in much distress at Vera Cruz just before. An opini
The Daily Dispatch: June 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], Later Foreign News. (search)
nte the Emperor received the principal functionaries. --His Majesty wore a black coat, while pantaloons and vest, and black cravat, which was the dress the deputation were ordered to wear. The deputation being introduced by the Minister Velasquez de Leon, the Perfect addressed his Majesty, extolling as memorable the day he had arrived, and predicting a new era for the country. The Emperor read a brief reply in Spanish, in a clear, vibrating tone. After this a conversation free from etiquette took place, and they were then presented to the Empress, who came leaning on the arm of Maximilian from an adjoining saloon. On the following morning, at 5 o'clock, the royal landing took place. There was a formal reception, delivering the keys of the city, etc. At Soledad the royal party took breakfast, and entered Cordoba at a late hour-on the 29th, one of the carriages having broken down. On the 30th, at 1 P. M. they entered Orizaba, which is the last we have heard of them.