Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 14, 2025
Those Louisianians are damned good dancers!" A courier quitting the knoll above the pike gave further information. "Skirmish back there, near the Capon road. Just a feeler of Fremont's his army's three miles over there in the woods. Old Dick's with General Taylor. Don't need your help, boys thank you all the same! Fremont won't attack in force. "All right," said the Stonewall.
Retaliatory Measures Fremont's Return to California Capture of Sonoma Sutter's Fort Placed Under Military Rule Monterey Taken by Commodore Sloat Capture of Los Angeles by Fremont and Commodore Stockton Carson Sent East as a Bearer of Despatches The Meeting with Apaches General Kearney Bravery of the California Mexicans.
He made his way up the Kansas River, crossed over to the Platte, which he ascended, and then pushed on to the South Pass. Four months after starting he had explored this pass and, with four of his men, had gone up to the top of Frémont's Peak, where he unfurled to the breeze the beautiful stars and stripes.
The precious metals are not only regarded in law as treasure-trove, but they carry with them to the lucky discoverer the right to enter upon another person's land, and to appropriate so much of the land as is necessary to avail himself of his prize. Colonel Frémont's Mariposa claim, and all other California land claims, are subject to this legal condition.
It would have been pleasant to linger here and on the summit longer; but we hurried away as rapidly as the ground would permit, for it was an object to regain our party as soon as possible, not knowing what accident the next hour might bring forth." This mountain which bears the name of Fremont's Peak, in honor of the great Pathfinder, was found to be 13,570 feet above the Gulf of Mexico.
The M'Dowell expedition had neutralised, for the time being, Fremont's 20,000 men; and Banks was now isolated, exposed to the combined attack of Jackson, Ewell, and Edward Johnson. One incident remains to be mentioned. During the march to Mount Solon some companies of the 27th Virginia, who had volunteered for twelve months, and whose time had expired, demanded their discharge.
It is almost certain that Fremont wished to provoke Castro and the Californians into war, and so to capture the country for the United States. A party of Fremont's men rode down to Sonoma, where there was a Mission, and also a presidio with a few cannon in charge of General Vallejo. These men captured the place and sent Vallejo and three other prisoners back to Fremont's camp.
The object of his manoeuvres was the destruction not of Fremont's advanced guard, but of Banks' army; and if his numbers were seriously reduced it would be impossible to attain that end. Fremont's brigades, moreover, protected no vital point. A decisive victory at M'Dowell would have produced but little effect at Washington.
The Colorado is formed by the junction of the Grand and Green Rivers. The Grand has its source in the Rocky Mountains five or six miles west of Long's Peak, and the Green heads in the Wind River Mountains near Fremont's Peak.
Not one third so high in the world as Fremont's peak, where he unfurled the banner of our country, threw it to the breeze and it proudly floated in the wind, higher than it had ever been before. We soon got to Albany, went to a hotel near the railroad depot, called for a room and told the landlord that we would occupy it until the next morning.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking