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Each mission was established in conjunction with a Spanish settlement under a civil governor, and during this period, the immigration was almost exclusively Spanish and Mexican. In 1822 California ceased to be a Spanish colony and became part of the territory of Mexico. From that date begins the...
However, members of that faith were to be found on all her borders, and everywhere they were either neutral, as were many in Canada, or friendly, as in the Spanish colonies around the Mexican Gulf and in the French settlements of the Illinois country. The services of the latter have been...
Tennesseeans figured prominently in the Mexican War of 1847, 30,000 volunteers tendering their services upon the call of Governor Brown. On February 9, 1861, an election was held upon the question of holding a convention to determine whether or not Tennessee should secede from the Union of ...
In the Mexican War Kentucky’s quota should have been 2400 men, but she sent more than 10,000. And in the Civil War, when the people of the state were divided in their sympathies, about 80,000 men enlisted in the Federal army and about 40,000 in the Confederate army. The Know-...