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or landing parties; they could also be detached for extended service on land. In actual practice, some sailors on each ship were detached from each vessel to supplement the marine force, although rarely more than would compromise a ship's ability to remain functional. The
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across the Gulf on the mainland. Within a month, they cleared the Gulf of hostile ships, destroying or capturing thirty vessels. Later on their sailors and marines captured the town of
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on June 10, 1846 by stealing government horses they feared would be used against them. On 5 July Frémont proposed to the
American insurgents that they unite with his party and become a single military group under his command. A compact was drawn up which all volunteers of the
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on 13 January 1847 – terminating the warfare and disbanding the
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arrived with another detachment of soldiers. These soldiers were added to the existing companies of
Jonathan D. Stevenson's 1st Regiment of New York Volunteers. These troops essentially took over all of the Pacific Squadron's on-shore military and
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of New York was asked to raise a volunteer regiment of ten companies of seventy-seven men each to go to
California with the understanding that they would be muster out and stay in California. They were designated the
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Angeles forced Gillespie and his troops departure on about 24 September 1847. Commodore Stockton used about 360 marines and bluejacket sailors with four field pieces from
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armed natives were killed with a loss of only two
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where on 13 August, with the United States Navy band playing and colors flying, the combined forces of
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25.00 a month for privates with higher pay for officers. The California Battalion varied in size with time from about 160 initially to over 450 by January 1847. Pacific Squadron war ships and
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frigate in 1846. The newly reconfigured ship removed the old top deck and reduced the gun count from ninety to fifty-four making her less well gunned but much easier to sail. The rebuilt
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on 26 July. Most towns surrendered without a shot being fired. Fremont's California Battalion members were sworn in and the volunteers paid the regular United States Army salary of
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The only other United States force in California was a sixty-two man "mapping" expedition which had entered California in late 1845 under the command of U.S. Army Brevet Captain
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exportation of sugar from the island to America. However, during the proceedings, Lunalilo died on February 3 of 1874 which suspended negotiations until the
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against the rebels over the course of a few months. When the conflict ended the United States gained control of eastern Samoa which is today's
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courthouse. As result 150 sailors and marines were landed from the American ships plus another seventy to eighty from the British sloop
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in the Gulf of California. There the pirates robbed the foreign residents and persuaded by force the United States Consulate to supply
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the pirate ship on 17 August 1870. The battle ended with an American victory and the burning and sinking of the pirate steamer.
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was a 13,000 miles (21,000 km) to 15,000 miles (24,000 km) journey that typically took from 130 to 210 days.
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by 20 January 1847 and after getting fresh supplies, water and wood were on their way again by 23 January.
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in the event of war with Mexico, to seize the ports in Mexican California and elsewhere along the
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2083:History of the United States Navy
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1584:Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers
890:California from San Francisco to
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2189:Trow, Charles Edward (1905),
2176:United States Naval Institute
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2118:United States Naval Institute
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991:Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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1901:, sloop; 20 guns, 200 crew
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1807:, sloop, 16 guns, 150 crew
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2558:Chesapeake Bay Flotilla
2315:Silverstone, Paul, H.;
1444:Thomas ap Catesby Jones
1432:March 2 – July 19, 1847
1395:Thomas ap Catesby Jones
1332:Charles Goodwin Ridgely
1166:Second Samoan Civil War
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2685:North Pacific Squadron
2573:Mediterranean Squadron
2432:Silversteen, pp. 38–42
2420:Thence round Cape Horn
2418:Robert Erwin Johnson,
2405:Thence round Cape Horn
2403:Robert Erwin Johnson,
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1689:Henry Glass
1367:John Downes
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1325:John Downes
1242:Disbandment
1236:World War I
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2089:References
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1890:St. Mary's
1768:Portsmouth
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1122:about the
1109:Portsmouth
886:and Lower-
869:Susan Drew
857:Valparaiso
849:Susan Drew
827:Susan Drew
747:New Mexico
678:storeships
657:Commodore
638:man-of-war
627:Royal Navy
606:Portsmouth
468:California
396:Friendship
328:First Mate
324:Friendship
311:Friendship
213:Macedonian
204:Macedonian
145:storeships
2602:Civil War
2534:squadrons
1985:, 367 men
1966:Lancaster
1954:1861–1865
1949:, steamer
1922:Lexington
1906:Vincennes
1817:storeship
1717:1845–1849
1705:1906–1907
1698:1905–1906
1684:1901–1903
1628:1887–1890
1621:1885–1886
1614:1884–1885
1607:1883–1884
1600:1881–1883
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1341:1821–1823
1334:1820–1821
1327:1818–1820
1284:USS
1274:USS
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190:Formation
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2063:Shubrick
2045:Camanche
1898:Vandalia
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1866:Savannah
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1756:Columbus
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1740:Congress
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539:boarding
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416:citadels
332:schooner
245:Franklin
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2005:Wyoming
1990:Saranac
1874:Raritan
1729:frigate
1291:gunboat
1228:Germany
1220:actions
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1149:Tenedos
1076:Forward
1069:Mohican
1064:Mohican
1058:Sinaloa
1050:Forward
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404:marines
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185:History
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320:pepper
276:Mexico
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690:Cyane
670:Cyane
586:Cyane
584:with
491:Cyane
316:Salem
2321:ISBN
2270:ISBN
2243:2012
2197:OCLC
1959:1861
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1425:1846
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964:and
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