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Then Commodore Sloat turned the naval force over to Stockton and returned home, leaving all quiet north of Santa Barbara. Commodore Stockton sent Fremont and his men to San Diego and, taking four hundred soldiers, went himself to Los Angeles, where the native Californians and Mexicans were determined to fight against the rule of the United States.
Maynard sprang after him, and the little major leaped upon a chair, his face aglow, jolly, rubicund, beaming with bliss and triumph. She looked up, almost wringing her hands, and turned half appealingly to the colonel, who was laughing heartily on the sofa, never dreaming Sloat could be in earnest.
We met there also the sloop-of-war levant, from California, and from the officers heard of many of the events that had transpired about the time the navy, under Commodore Sloat, had taken possession of the country. All the necessary supplies being renewed in Valparaiso, the voyage was resumed.
Though untrained to this kind of service, and though it was always hard, and sometimes quite ungrateful, they responded to orders with entire cheerfulness; when the service was most perilous then the blue-jackets entered upon it with a gayety that laughed at danger. On the 19th of July, Fremont and his corps of topographical engineers met Captain Sloat and thereafter co-operated with him.
I like see General Castro take your little Commodore Sloat by the neck. He look like a little gray rat." "Commodore Sloat is a brave and able man, Miss Ortega, and no officer in the United States navy will hear him insulted." "Then much better you lock up the ears." "My dear Captain Russell! Benicia! what is the matter?" Mr. Larkin stood before them, an amused smile on his thin intellectual face.
Commodore Sloat, who raised the American flag at Monterey, and Commodore Stockton were United States naval officers who helped to conquer the Mexican and Indian forces with the aid of Fremont and General Kearny. These four men won the land of gold for the Union.
The herald put his hand to his throat to control the swelling muscles. "Two hours ago," he said, "Commander Sloat sent one Captain William Mervine on shore to demand of our Commandante the surrender of the town.
In Congress, Senator Benton and Senator Fremont in most points supported this report as the only just plan. Against the bill that was finally passed Senator Benton protested vigorously, saying that it amounted to confiscation of the land instead of the protection promised by the American government, through Larkin and Sloat.
"I can't explain, Sloat. What I ask is unavoidable. Tell me about that bet." "Why, he was so superior and airy, you know, and was trying to make me feel that he was so much more intimate with them all at the colonel's, and that he could have that picture for the mere asking; and I got mad, and bet him he never could." "Was that the day you shook hands on it?" "Yes."
From his escort he has heard of the many bickerings which have involved Sloat, Stockton, Fremont, and Kearney. Trusting to Padre Francisco's letters, he hires a horse of a loitering half-breed. This native pilots him to the mission. The priests receive him with open arms. They are glad for news of their brother of the Sierras. Maxime installs himself as a guest of the priests.
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