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John C. Fremont
On his third western expedition with sixty armed men [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Fremont had received permission from Mexican General Jose Castro to rest his horses in California. Castro confined Fremont and his men, however, to the valley of the San Joaquin River, away from Mexican pueblos and ranchos along the coast.
Castro had a number of reasons to be alarmed at this action. In December of 1845, the U.S. Congress had annexed Texas, a Mexican province taken by independence-minded Anglo-American settlers. Although there were only about a thousand American settlers in California in 1846 compared with fourteen thousand European Spaniards and people of mixed blood, more recent arrivals had been a new type.
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John Charles Fremont
On the morning of June 14th, 1846, a ragtag band of thirty-three armed, Anglo-American settlers descended on the undefended, former military garrison town of Sonoma in Northern California [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and overthrew the few remaining Mexican authorities on the grounds that they were “oppressed by a military despotism [link widoczny dla zalogowanych],” among other charges, in what came to be known as the Bear Flag Revolt. The ease with which they took the town and the total absence of troops apparently did not relieve their fears of “military despotism.” Why had the rebels taken such drastic action?
They balked at learning Spanish and adopting Catholicism, and remained aloof from California’s social and political life. According to historian Lisbeth Haas, “many of them believed themselves superior to the Californio and Indian populations, expressing their right to the land in conjunction with their notions of white racial superiority.”
The Stand on Gavilan Peak
At thirty-three years old, Captain John Charles Fremont was already a famed explorer of the West. His narratives of his expeditions, co-written with his wife, Jesse Benton, were devoured as adventure stories by people all over the United States. He was the son-in-law of Senator Thomas Hart Benton, an ardent expansionist.
The Bear Flag Revolt cannot be viewed in isolation. Although the settlers would make California an independent republic for twenty-four days, they were emboldened to act by the appearance of a couple of American military officers in California in 1846. The puzzling actions of those officers contributed to the belief that the United States was scheming to strip Mexico of California. They also stoked fears of repressive actions by the Mexican government in California, which in turn spurred the settlers to insurrection.
Ignoring Castro’s restrictions, Fremont immediately turned south and traveled through and stayed near San Jose, Santa Cruz, and the Salinas Valley. On March 5th, 1846, Castro sent a messenger warning Fremont that he had violated the terms of his stay, and should now leave the province. Fremont haughtily refused, and took up a fortified position northeast of Monterey on Gavilan Peak, where he raised the American flag.
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