MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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New Mexico
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Republic of California
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Mexico’s northern provinces
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land between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande
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Detailed explanation-1: -Fremont hoists the grizzly-bear flag of the California Republic as California settlers declare themselves independent of Mexico during the Bear Flag Revolt in Sonoma, California, on June 10, 1846.
Detailed explanation-2: -The California Republic (Spanish: La República de California), or Bear Flag Republic, was an unrecognized breakaway state from Mexico, that for 25 days in 1846 militarily controlled an area north of San Francisco, in and around what is now Sonoma County in California.
Detailed explanation-3: -John C. Fremont, an American army officer, had arrived in California with a small contingent of troops in order to ‘survey’ the area. Fremont sowed the seeds of rebellion, in part by claiming that the Mexican government planned to attack US citizens living in the area.
Detailed explanation-4: -From then on, the independence movement was known as the Bear Flag Revolt. After the rebels won a few minor skirmishes with Mexican forces, Fremont officially took command of the so-called Bear Flaggers and occupied the unguarded presidio of San Francisco on July 1.
Detailed explanation-5: -Commodore John Drake Sloat, commander of the Pacific Squadron, on being informed of an outbreak of hostilities between Mexico and the United States, as well as the Bear Flag Revolt in Sonoma, ordered his naval forces to occupy ports in northern Alta California.