California Military History

The Mexican War and California

• General Histories
  • The Conquest of California (1910)
  • The Mexican War and Conquest of California: Stockton or Kearny Conqueror and First Governor? (1929)
  • The Mexican War and the Conquest of California: Stockton or Kearny Conqueror and First Governor?
  • A Prize and a National Policy: The Contest for California
  • The American Conquest (2005)
    • Manifest Destiny Realized
    • Monterey's Presidio Occupied and Improved
    • The Americans Land at Yerba Buena
    • The Occupation of Santa Barbara
    • The Battle of Los Angeles
    • Occupation of San Diego and the Founding of Fort Stockton
  • The Mexican War (1881) History of El Dorado County
    • Part I
    • Part II
    • Part III
  • The Mexican War (1891) History of Los Angeles County
  • The Mexican War (1881) History of Mendocino County
  • The War with Mexico (1891) History of Santa Barbara County
  • The Acquistion of California
  • The American Occupations of Rancho Santa Margarita y Las Flores
  • An Inquiry into the Significance of the Raising of the American Flag at Yerba Buena, July 9, 1846 (1936)
  • Horse Marines: California 1846
  • War in California, 1846-1848
  • A Reconsideration of the Origins of the Mexican-American War
  • Juan Flaco's Ride: An Incident in the Conquest of California
  • The British Vice Consul in California and the Events of 1846
  • A New York Regiment in California, 1846-1848
  • Insurgents on the Baja Peninsula: Henry Halleck's Journal of the War in Lower California,1847-1848
  • A Leap in the Dark: The Campaign to Conquer New Mexico and California, 1846-1847
  • John Sutter and His Fort
• Treaties
  • Treaty of Campo de Cahuenga
  • Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo
• Mexican and American Forts
  • Fort Moore
    • The Two Forts of Fort Hill: The Siege of Los Angeles and Fort Moore
    • Sketch of Captain Benjamin Daviss Moore
    • Fort Moore and the Battle of San Pasqual
    • Old Fort Moore
  • Forts DuPont and Stockton
  • Posts at Monterey: El Real Presidio de San Carlos de Monterey, Fort Mervine, Ord Barracks, and The Presidio of Monterey
• Battles
  • Bear Flag Revolt
    • Bear Flag Lieutenant: The Life Story of Henry L. Ford (1822-1860), with Some Related and Contemporary Art of Alexander Edouart
    • The Bear Flag Revolt and the Anglo-American Conquest of California
    • Legacy of the Grizzly Bear
    • The Proclamation of the Bear Flag Revolt
    • The Bear FlagRevolt and the Mexican War (1882) History of Plumas County
      • The Bear-Flag War, and What Led To It.
      • The War Commenced by the Bear-Flag Party ends in the Conquest of California by the United States.
      • The Flores Insurrection.
    • Captain John Charles Fremont and the Bear Flag Revolt
    • The Bear Flag War (1891) History of Contra Costa County
    • The Bear Flag War (1881) History of El Dorado County
    • New Light on the Original Bear Flag (1952)
    • The Bear Flag Revolution
    • Governor Pico's Protest Against the Action of the Bear Flag Party
    • John C. Frémont and the Bear Flag Revolution: A Reappraisal
  • Battle of Olómpal
  • Battle of Monterey
    • The Raising of the Flag at Monterey, California, July 7, 1846
  • The Gabilan Peak Campaign of 1846
  • Battle of Dominguez Rancho
  • Battle of Natividad
  • Battle of Rio San Gabriel
  • Battle of La Mesa
  • Battle of Chino
    • The Battle of Chino
    • Where was the Battle of Chino Fought?
  • Battles for Los Angeles
    • The Two Forts of Fort Hill: The Siege of Los Angeles and Fort Moore
    • Siege and Capture of Los Angeles, September 1846
    • Campaign for Los Angeles, December 29, 1846-January 10, 1847
    • The Conquest of Los Angeles
    • Los Angeles in the War with Mexico
    • "The Entire Southern Country Abandoned by the American Arms": An Eyewitness Account of the Siege of Los Angeles, 1846
  • Battle of San Pedro
    • Carrillo's Flying Artillery: The Battle of San Pedro
  • The Battle of San Pasqual
    • The Battle of San Pasqual
    • Brig. Gen. Stephen W. Kearny's Report on the March from New Mexico to California
    • Brig. Gen. Stephen W. Kearny's Report on the Battle of San Pasqual
    • Captain Archibald Gillespie's Report to Commodare Robert Stockton Concerning The Battle of San Pasqual
    • Lances of San Pasqual
    • Fort Moore and the Battle of San Pasqual
    • San Pasqual: California's Most Famous Battleground
    • The Battle of San Pasqual: A Report of the California Historical Survey Commission with Special Reference to its Location (1921)
  • Insurgents on the Baja Peninsula: Henry Halleck's Journal of the War in Lower California, 1847-1848 (1975)
• The U.S. Navy in California during the Mexican War
  • The Pacific Theater of Naval Warfare in the Mexican-American War
  • Extracts from the Log of the U.S. Frigate Savannah by Robert Carson Duvall
  • The Pacific Theater of Naval Warfare in the Mexican-American War
  • Naval Conquest in the Pacific: The Journal of Lieutenant Tunis Augustus Macdonough Craven, U.S.N., during a Cruise to the Pacific in the Sloop of War Dale, 1846-49
• Mormon Battalion
  • The 1847 Crossing of Imperial County, California and Baja California, Mexico by the US Mormon Battalion
  • Images of Early California: Mormon Battalion Soldiers' Reflections During the War With Mexico
  • The Mormon Battalion: Conflict Between Religious and Military Authority
  • The Long March of the Moromon Battalion
• First Regiment of New York Volunteers (Stevenson's Regiment)
  • Stevenson's Regiment: First Regiment of New York Volunteers
  • Journal of John McHenry Hollingsworth: A Lieutenant in Stevenson's Regiment in California
  • The First Regiment of New York Volunteers Commanded by Col. Jonathan D. Stevenson, in the Mexican War
• Pio Pico, Last Governor of Mexican California
  • Pio Pico's Correspondence with the Mexican Government 1846-1848 (1934)
• Brigadier General Stephan Watts Kearny and the Army of the West
  • Soldiers Under Stephan Watts Kearny
  • Brig. Gen. Stephan W Kearny and the Conquest of California 1846-7 (1922)
  • The Final Roster of the Army of the West, 1846-1847
  • A Doctor Comes to California: The Diary of John S. Griffin, Assistant Surgeon with Kearny's Dragoons, 1846-47
  • Sketch of Captain Benjamin Daviss Moore
• Commodore John D. Sloat
  • The Sloat Proclamation
• Commodore Robert F. Stockton
  • The Stockton Proclamation
  • Commodore Stockton's Report on the War in California
• Colonel John C. Frémont and the California Battalion
  • Fremont in the Conquest of California
  • Frémont's Cannon
  • Captain John Charles Frémont and the Bear Flag Revolt
  • Senator Benton Lays His Plans: Some Newly-Discovered Material on the Frémont Court-Martial (1934)
  • Tracing Frémont's Route with the California Battalion from San Juan Bautista to Los Angeles, November, 1846 to January, 1847
  • Letter from Colonel John C. Fremont, 1847
  • John C. Frémont and the Bear Flag Revolution: A Reappraisal
  • Senate Document 49: Report of the Secretary of War to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: Office of the Board for the Examination of Claims Contracted in California by Lt. Col. Fremont, 13 March 1854
• Captain Archibald Gillespie, USMC
  • Captain Archibald Gillespie's Report to Commodare Robert Stockton Concerning The Battle of San Pasqual
  • Gillespie and the Conquest of California: From Letters Dated February 11, 1846, to July 8, 1848, to the Secretary of the Navy (1939)
  • Further Letters of Archibald H. Gillespie: October 20, 1845, to January 16, 1846, to the Secretary of the Navy
  • Origin of the Gillespie Mission
  • Deposition of Archibald H. Gillespie Concerning Mission San Diego
• John D. Givens
  • Vallejo Author Uncovers the Story of Bear Flag Revolt Hero John Grider Vallejo Times-Herald
  • Searching for John Grinder, An African-American Bear Flag Veteran BlackPast.com
• William Brown Ide
  • William Brown Ide: Pioneer, Bear Flagger and Builder

 

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Updated 29 September 2021