sepulveda's

Updated: May 9, 2025

Sailors call men from any part of the coast of Massachusetts south of Boston Cape Cod men. Pronounced croj-ac. This was Sepulveda's rancho, where there was a fight, during our war with Mexico in 1846, between some United States troops and the Mexicans, under Don Andreas Pico. Sunday, October 11th.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast

The Council of the Indies would not allow this book to be published, but Las Casas had asked them to allow it to be submitted to the universities of Salamanca and Alcalá for their opinion. This opinion proved to be against it. Las Casas now undertook to answer Sepulveda's arguments and defend the freedom of his Indians.

Alice J. Knight - Las Casas: 'The Apostle of the Indies'

I had a good deal of conversation with these gentlemen, who stood alone in an assembly of Americans, who had conquered their country, spared pillars of the past. Don Andres had fought us at San Pazqual and Sepulveda's rancho, in 1846, and as he fought bravely, not a common thing among the Mexicans, and, indeed, repulsed Kearney, is always treated with respect.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast

It appears to have been a drawn battle; but at length the Council decided in favor of Sepulveda. The Emperor and the officials of the government, however, must have been of another opinion, for Sepulveda's book was suppressed. At the time of this controversy Las Casas was seventy-six years old. Soon after this Las Casas resigned his bishopric and the Emperor granted him a pension.

Alice J. Knight - Las Casas: 'The Apostle of the Indies'

It was the hill on which now stands the county courthouse at Broadway and Temple. "My father often told me of the great horse race between Jose Andres Sepulveda's 'Black Swan' and Pio Pico's 'Sarco. Don Jose imported the 'Black Swan' from Australia while Don Pio's horse was a California steed. The race was run along a nine-mile course on San Pedro street in '52.

James Hugh Richardson - Spring Street: A Story of Los Angeles

I had a good deal of conversation with these gentlemen, who stood alone in an assembly of Americans, who had conquered their country, spared pillars of the past. Don Andres had fought us at San Pazqual and Sepulveda's rancho, in 1846, and as he fought bravely, not a common thing among the Mexicans, and, indeed, repulsed Kearney, is always treated with respect.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast