[PDF] Conquest Of California 1846 8 eBook

Author : Dale L. Walker
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
Release : 2000-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1466814497

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Dale L. Walker, historian and author of Legends and Lies: Great Mysteries of the American West, takes on the conquest of California in this vivid portrait of America's manifest destiny. Bear Flag Rising traces the history of California from the Indians who inhabited the land before the first Europeans saw it through the warfare that would finally leave the province in American hands. The lives of the Californios in tranquil days before the advent of American trappers and the steady decline of the province under Mexico's neglectful rule are brought to life in this epic chronicle. Battles and skirmishes, such as the bitter fight on the San Gabriel River during the march to recapture Los Angeles, are meticulously re-created in all their vicious glory. Above all, Bear Flag Rising is rich with the personalities of the conquest--from John Charles Fremont, the ambitious, enigmatic explorer, to Commodore Robert Field Stockton, a wealthy, imperious, and ruthless naval officer, and Stephen Watts Kearny, who made a 2,000-mile overland march from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, annexing New Mexico on the way, and arrived in California to face Mexican lancers in battle. Bear Flag Rising reveals, through exacting research and masterful prose, the full story of how Mexico lost California and how this Pacific paradise went on to become "the greatest jewel in the crown of the American Empire." At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Philip St. George Cooke
Publisher :
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,89 MB
Release : 1964
Category : California
ISBN :

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U.S. Cavalry General's account of military expeditions that wrested this territory from Mexico in 1846-1848.

Author : Valentine Mott [From Old Cat Porter
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,3 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781017692747

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