Faster access than browser!
67 relations: Alta California, Andrés Pico, Archibald H. Gillespie, Battle of San Pasqual, Brevet (military), California, California Republic, California Trail, Californio, Commodore (United States), Consul (representative), Donner Party, Dragoon, Flag of California, Fort Leavenworth, Frigate, Granville P. Swift, History of Santa Barbara, California, History of Texas, Iowa, James K. Polk, John C. Frémont, John D. Sloat, Jonathan D. Stevenson, José María Flores, Kit Carson, Lansford Hastings, Mazatlán, Mexican–American War, Mexico, Miguel Pedrorena, Mission Indians, Monterey, California, Mormon Battalion, Native Americans in the United States, Naval boarding, Nebraska, Pacific Squadron, Presidio of Santa Barbara, Pueblo de Los Ángeles, Rancho La Natividad, Rancho Las Mariposas, Rancho Los Vergeles, Richard Barnes Mason, Richard Taylor Jacob, Robert F. Stockton, Salinas Valley, Salt Lake City, Samuel Francis Du Pont, San Diego, ..., San Francisco Bay, San Juan Bautista, California, San Marcos Pass, San Pedro, Los Angeles, Santa Ynez Mountains, Santiago Argüello, Siege of Los Angeles, Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sloop, Sloop-of-war, Stephen W. Kearny, Sutter's Fort, Thomas O. Larkin, Treaty of Cahuenga, United States Marine Corps, Yerba Buena, California, 1st Regiment of New York Volunteers. Expand index (17 more) »
Alta California
Alta California (Upper California), founded in 1769 by Gaspar de Portolà, was a polity of New Spain, and, after the Mexican War of Independence in 1822, a territory of Mexico.
New!!: California Battalion and Alta California · See more »
Andrés Pico
Andrés Pico (November 18, 1810 – February 14, 1876) was a Californio who became a successful rancher, fought in the contested Battle of San Pascual during the Mexican-American War, and negotiated promises of post-war protections for Californios in the 1847 Treaty of Cahuenga.
New!!: California Battalion and Andrés Pico · See more »
Archibald H. Gillespie
Major Archibald H. Gillespie (October 10, 1812 – August 16, 1873) was an officer in the United States Marine Corps during the Mexican-American War.
New!!: California Battalion and Archibald H. Gillespie · See more »
Battle of San Pasqual
The Battle of San Pasqual, also spelled San Pascual, was a military encounter that occurred during the Mexican–American War in what is now the San Pasqual Valley community of the city of San Diego, California.
New!!: California Battalion and Battle of San Pasqual · See more »
Brevet (military)
In many of the world's military establishments, a brevet was a warrant giving a commissioned officer a higher rank title as a reward for gallantry or meritorious conduct but without conferring the authority, precedence, or pay of real rank.
New!!: California Battalion and Brevet (military) · See more »
California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
New!!: California Battalion and California · See more »
California Republic
The California Republic was an unrecognized breakaway state that, for 25 days in 1846, militarily controlled an area north of San Francisco, in and around what is now Sonoma County in California.
New!!: California Battalion and California Republic · See more »
California Trail
The California Trail was an emigrant trail of about across the western half of the North American continent from Missouri River towns to what is now the state of California.
New!!: California Battalion and California Trail · See more »
Californio
Californio (historical and regional Spanish for "Californian") is a Spanish term with widely varying interpretations.
New!!: California Battalion and Californio · See more »
Commodore (United States)
Commodore was an early title and later a rank in the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard and the Confederate States Navy.
New!!: California Battalion and Commodore (United States) · See more »
Consul (representative)
A consul is an official representative of the government of one state in the territory of another, normally acting to assist and protect the citizens of the consul's own country, and to facilitate trade and friendship between the people of the two countries.
New!!: California Battalion and Consul (representative) · See more »
Donner Party
The Donner Party, or Donner–Reed Party, was a group of American pioneers who set out for California in a wagon train in May 1846.
New!!: California Battalion and Donner Party · See more »
Dragoon
Dragoons originally were a class of mounted infantry, who used horses for mobility but dismounted to fight on foot.
New!!: California Battalion and Dragoon · See more »
Flag of California
The Bear Flag is the official flag of the state of California.
New!!: California Battalion and Flag of California · See more »
Fort Leavenworth
Fort Leavenworth is a United States Army installation located in Leavenworth County, Kansas, immediately north of the city of Leavenworth, in the northeast part of the state.
New!!: California Battalion and Fort Leavenworth · See more »
Frigate
A frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.
New!!: California Battalion and Frigate · See more »
Granville P. Swift
Granville Perry Swift (May 1, 1821 in Lexington, Kentucky – April 21, 1875) was a California pioneer who participated in the Bear Flag Revolt in 1846 and who was highly successful at gold mining.
New!!: California Battalion and Granville P. Swift · See more »
History of Santa Barbara, California
The history of Santa Barbara, California, begins approximately 13,000 years ago with the arrival of the first Native Americans.
New!!: California Battalion and History of Santa Barbara, California · See more »
History of Texas
The recorded history of Texas begins with the arrival of the first Spanish conquistadors in the region of North America now known as Texas in 1519, who found the region populated by numerous Native American / Indian tribes.
New!!: California Battalion and History of Texas · See more »
Iowa
Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers to the west.
New!!: California Battalion and Iowa · See more »
James K. Polk
James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) was an American politician who served as the 11th President of the United States (1845–1849).
New!!: California Battalion and James K. Polk · See more »
John C. Frémont
John Charles Frémont or Fremont (January 21, 1813July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, politician, and soldier who, in 1856, became the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States.
New!!: California Battalion and John C. Frémont · See more »
John D. Sloat
John Drake Sloat (July 6, 1781 – November 28, 1867) was a commodore in the United States Navy who, in 1846, claimed California for the United States.
New!!: California Battalion and John D. Sloat · See more »
Jonathan D. Stevenson
Jonathan Drake Stevenson (1800–1894) was born in New York; won a seat in the New York State Assembly; was the commanding officer of the First Regiment of New York Volunteers during the Mexican-American War in California; entered California mining and real estate businesses; and died in San Francisco on February 14, 1894.
New!!: California Battalion and Jonathan D. Stevenson · See more »
José María Flores
General José María Flores (1818, New Spain – 1866) was an officer in the Mexican Army and was a member of la otra banda. He was appointed Governor and Comandante General pro tem of Alta California from 1846 to 1847, and defended California against the Americans during the Mexican-American War.
New!!: California Battalion and José María Flores · See more »
Kit Carson
Christopher Houston Carson (December 24, 1809 – May 23, 1868), better known as Kit Carson, was an American frontiersman.
New!!: California Battalion and Kit Carson · See more »
Lansford Hastings
Lansford Warren Hastings (1819–1870) is best remembered as the developer of Hastings Cutoff, a shortcut across what is now the state of Utah, a factor in the Donner Party disaster of 1846.
New!!: California Battalion and Lansford Hastings · See more »
Mazatlán
Mazatlán is a city in the Mexican state of Sinaloa.
New!!: California Battalion and Mazatlán · See more »
Mexican–American War
The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War in the United States and in Mexico as the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States (Mexico) from 1846 to 1848.
New!!: California Battalion and Mexican–American War · See more »
Mexico
Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.
New!!: California Battalion and Mexico · See more »
Miguel Pedrorena
Miguel Pedrorena, Sr. or Miguel de Pedrorena, Sr. (c. 1808–1850) was an early settler of San Diego, California.
New!!: California Battalion and Miguel Pedrorena · See more »
Mission Indians
Mission Indians are the indigenous peoples of California who lived in Southern California and were forcibly relocated from their traditional dwellings, villages, and homelands to live and work at 15 Franciscan missions in Southern California, and the Asisténcias and Estáncias established between 1796 and 1823 in the Las Californias Province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
New!!: California Battalion and Mission Indians · See more »
Monterey, California
Monterey is a city located in Monterey County in the U.S. state of California, on the southern edge of Monterey Bay on California's Central Coast.
New!!: California Battalion and Monterey, California · See more »
Mormon Battalion
The Mormon Battalion, the only religiously based unit in United States military history, served from July 1846 – July 1847 during the Mexican–American War of 1846–1848.
New!!: California Battalion and Mormon Battalion · See more »
Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.
New!!: California Battalion and Native Americans in the United States · See more »
Naval boarding
Naval boarding is to come up against, or alongside, an enemy ship to attack by placing combatants aboard the enemy ship.
New!!: California Battalion and Naval boarding · See more »
Nebraska
Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States.
New!!: California Battalion and Nebraska · See more »
Pacific Squadron
The Pacific Squadron was part of the United States Navy squadron stationed in the Pacific Ocean in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
New!!: California Battalion and Pacific Squadron · See more »
Presidio of Santa Barbara
El Presidio Real de Santa Bárbara, also known as the Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara, is a former military installation in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
New!!: California Battalion and Presidio of Santa Barbara · See more »
Pueblo de Los Ángeles
El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles (the Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels) was the Spanish civilian pueblo founded in 1781, which by the 20th century became the American metropolis of Los Angeles.
New!!: California Battalion and Pueblo de Los Ángeles · See more »
Rancho La Natividad
Rancho La Natividad was a Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California given in 1837 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Manuel Butrón and his son-in-law, Nicolás Alviso.
New!!: California Battalion and Rancho La Natividad · See more »
Rancho Las Mariposas
Rancho Las Mariposas was a Mexican land grant in Alta California, located in present-day Mariposa County, California.
New!!: California Battalion and Rancho Las Mariposas · See more »
Rancho Los Vergeles
Rancho Los Vergeles was a Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County and San Benito County, California given in 1835 by Governor José Castro to José Joaquín Gómez.
New!!: California Battalion and Rancho Los Vergeles · See more »
Richard Barnes Mason
Richard Barnes Mason (January 16, 1797July 25, 1850) was a career officer in the United States Army and the fourth military governor of California before it became a U.S. state.
New!!: California Battalion and Richard Barnes Mason · See more »
Richard Taylor Jacob
Richard Taylor Jacob (March 13, 1825 – September 13, 1903) was an American attorney and politician, elected as 17th Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky (1863–64).
New!!: California Battalion and Richard Taylor Jacob · See more »
Robert F. Stockton
Robert Field Stockton (August 20, 1795 – October 7, 1866) was a United States Navy commodore, notable in the capture of California during the Mexican–American War.
New!!: California Battalion and Robert F. Stockton · See more »
Salinas Valley
The Salinas Valley is one of the major valleys and most productive agricultural regions in California.
New!!: California Battalion and Salinas Valley · See more »
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Utah.
New!!: California Battalion and Salt Lake City · See more »
Samuel Francis Du Pont
Samuel Francis Du Pont (September 27, 1803 – June 23, 1865) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy, and a member of the prominent Du Pont family.
New!!: California Battalion and Samuel Francis Du Pont · See more »
San Diego
San Diego (Spanish for 'Saint Didacus') is a major city in California, United States.
New!!: California Battalion and San Diego · See more »
San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay is a shallow estuary in the US state of California.
New!!: California Battalion and San Francisco Bay · See more »
San Juan Bautista, California
San Juan Bautista (English: "Saint John the Baptist") is a city in San Benito County, California, United States.
New!!: California Battalion and San Juan Bautista, California · See more »
San Marcos Pass
San Marcos Pass (el. 2,225 ft. / 678 m) is a mountain pass in the Santa Ynez Mountains in southern California.
New!!: California Battalion and San Marcos Pass · See more »
San Pedro, Los Angeles
San Pedro is a community within the city of Los Angeles, California.
New!!: California Battalion and San Pedro, Los Angeles · See more »
Santa Ynez Mountains
The Santa Ynez Mountains are a portion of the Transverse Ranges, part of the Pacific Coast Ranges of the west coast of North America.
New!!: California Battalion and Santa Ynez Mountains · See more »
Santiago Argüello
Santiago Argüello (1791–1862) was a Californio, a soldier in the Spanish army of the Viceroyalty of New Spain in Las Californias, a major Mexican land grant ranchos owner, and part of an influential family in Mexican Alta California and post-statehood California.
New!!: California Battalion and Santiago Argüello · See more »
Siege of Los Angeles
The Siege of Los Angeles was a military response by armed Californios to the occupation, which had begun August 13, 1846, by the United States Marines of the Pueblo de Los Angeles during the Mexican–American War.
New!!: California Battalion and Siege of Los Angeles · See more »
Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
The Sierra Nevada (snowy saw range) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin.
New!!: California Battalion and Sierra Nevada (U.S.) · See more »
Sloop
A sloop (from Dutch sloep, in turn from French chaloupe) is a sailing boat with a single mast and a fore-and-aft rig.
New!!: California Battalion and Sloop · See more »
Sloop-of-war
In the 18th century and most of the 19th, a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns.
New!!: California Battalion and Sloop-of-war · See more »
Stephen W. Kearny
Stephen Watts Kearny (surname also appears as Kearney in some historic sources; August 30, 1794October 31, 1848), was one of the foremost antebellum frontier officers of the United States Army.
New!!: California Battalion and Stephen W. Kearny · See more »
Sutter's Fort
Sutter's Fort was a 19th-century agricultural and trade colony in the Mexican Alta California province.
New!!: California Battalion and Sutter's Fort · See more »
Thomas O. Larkin
Thomas Oliver Larkin (September 16, 1802-October 27,1858) was an early American businessman in Alta California, and was appointed to be the United States' first and only consul to Mexican Alta California.
New!!: California Battalion and Thomas O. Larkin · See more »
Treaty of Cahuenga
The Treaty of Cahuenga, also called the "Capitulation of Cahuenga," ended the fighting of the Mexican–American War in Alta California in 1847.
New!!: California Battalion and Treaty of Cahuenga · See more »
United States Marine Corps
The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting amphibious operations with the United States Navy.
New!!: California Battalion and United States Marine Corps · See more »
Yerba Buena, California
Yerba Buena was the original name of the settlement that later became San Francisco, California.
New!!: California Battalion and Yerba Buena, California · See more »
1st Regiment of New York Volunteers
1st Regiment of New York Volunteers, for service in California and during the war with Mexico, was raised in 1846 during the Mexican–American War by Jonathan D. Stevenson.
New!!: California Battalion and 1st Regiment of New York Volunteers · See more »
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Battalion
