Life, explorations and public services of John Charles Fremont (1856) (14769733591)

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Identifier: lifeexplorations01upha (find matches)
Title: Life, explorations and public services of John Charles Fremont
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Upham, Charles Wentworth, 1802-1875
Subjects: Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890
Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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bay, if he would wait for him, he would pass around its head as quickly as possible, and meet him where he was at Santa Clara, and end the contest for the country at once. On his way round, finding himself at Sonoma on the 4th of July, the day was duly celebrated.On the next day, a great concourse of people, American settlers, and others sympathizing in the cause, having come to meet and welcome him, he declared the country Independent, and the flag of the free state of California, a grizzly bear on a white field, was unfurled. By the celerity of these bold movements, the Indian enemy was annihilated, the settlers saved from massacre, and their fields from desolation;the power of Mexico over North California was broken down forever; and, as we shall soon see, the whole of that golden empire secured to the United States. On the 10th of July, Fremont reached, on his way to Santa Clara, in the fulfilment of his promise to Castro, the nearest point at which, cavalry could get around the head of the bay,
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BEAR WAR. 235 at Sutters Fort. About sunset an express reached him from Commodore Sloat, announcing his capture of Monterey. The next morning, at sunrise, he hoisted the flag of the American Union at the fort, under a national salute, and with great rejoicings. Thus ended what was called the Bear war. He then moved down with great celerity along the south side of the bay. His troop consisted of 160 mounted riflemen. Castro fled before him, and on the 19th of July he reached Monterey. Of his entrance into that city a very graphic account is given by Lieutenant the Hon. Frederick Walpole, of the Royal Navy, in a work published in London, with the following title: Four years in the Pacific, in her Majestys ship < Collingwood, from 1844 to 1848. During our stay in Monterey, says Lieutenant Walpole, Captain Fremont and his party arrived. They naturally excited curiosity. Here were true trappers, the class that produced the heroes of Fenimore Coopers best works. These men had passed year