General order : to American seamen and Marines aboard the USS Savannah at Monterey, Calif. : ADS, 1846 July 7.

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General order : to American seamen and Marines aboard the USS Savannah at Monterey, Calif. : ADS, 1846 July 7.

Military orders to the crew aboard the USS Savannah, issued by John Drake Sloat, Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Naval Forces in the Pacific, on the day that the U.S. "took possession" of Calif. from Mexico by raising the American flag.

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California historical society

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Sloat, John Drake, 1781-1867.

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Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948

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Chronologies 1884 September 2 Charles Templeton Crocker is born in San Francisco, California. 1888 August 14 Charles Crocker (Templeton Crocker's grandfather and one of the "big four" who built the Central Pacific Railroad) dies. 1898 ...