John C. Frémont

...a British military historian, admires the force of will that he sees in Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Lincoln, Sherman, and Grant, but John Fremont, Henry Halleck, and Don Carlos Buell are "lesser beings"; Jefferson Davis is a "fusspot"; and...

In this article: American Civil War, History, First World War, The New Yorker, Stonewall Jackson, Don Carlos Buell, Henry Halleck, John Fremont, Jefferson Davis, and George McClellan

...and a series of resolutions to mar down the convention were voted down decisively. The convention nominated Fremont for President. Fremont accepted the nomination on June 4, 1864. In his letter, he stated that he would step aside if the...

In this article: Abraham Lincoln, George B. McClellan, Andrew Johnson, Civil War, National Union Party, Horatio Seymour, United States presidential election, 1864, Republican Party, and Thomas H. Seymour

...for Commodore John D. Sloat commander of the Pacific Squadron, U.S. Consul Thomas Larkin , and Fremont. He also carried some letters from Fremont's wife, Jessie Benton Fremont. Gillespie had traveled across Mexico in disguise and caught...

In this article: California, Archibald H. Gillespie, Stephen W. Kearny, Stockton, Los Angeles, Thomas O. Larkin, and James K. Polk

...he caught a ship to California where he delivered his messages to Thomas Larkin and Sloat. Finding that Fremont was on his way to Oregon he borrowed a horse and hurried north where he caught up with him near the Oregon border. After...

In this article: Archibald H. Gillespie, California, Stockton, Los Angeles, and Pacific Squadron

...to the District Court, declaring the claim valid and ordering an official survey, and the grant was patented to John C. Fremont in 1856. Fremont never worked the mines himself but preferred to lease the mines to different entities. Fremont...

In this article: Juan Bautista Alvarado, Mariposa, California, Bear Valley, and Frederick Law Olmsted

...he dumped that contract extension in a snowbank in the Sierra Nevada. That way, at least he would have something in common with John C. Fremont, since he has never known what it's like to possess his cannon. Sanford's contract includes a...

In this article: Mike Sanford, Wolf Pack, UNLV, UNLV, Andre Ware, Amos Alonzo Stagg, and Reno, Nevada

...murder. Police spokesman Sgt. Frank Sousa said the two-day sting was dubbed "Operation Show Me The Money." 1861: Union Gen. John Fremont instituted martial law in Missouri and declared slaves there to be free. (Fremont's order was...

In this article: John Fremont, Seattle Times, New York, Fort Lauderdale, Missouri, and Florida

On this date: In 1797, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author of "Frankenstein," was born in London. In 1861, Union Gen. John C. Fremont instituted martial law in Missouri and declared slaves there to be free. (However, Fremont's order was...

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...Francis DuPont of the Cyane to sail from Monterey and take possession of San Diego. The Cyane, carrying 160 soldiers of Capt. John C. Fremont's California Battalion, entered a quiet harbor and asked the town's Mexican authorities to...

In this article: Samuel Francis DuPont, San Diego, Stephen Watts Kearny, Mission San Diego de Alcala, California, and Los Angeles

...in California. A fraction of the size of the Ft. Moore memorial, they detail the exploits of the U.S. military men like John Charles Fremont, but also the courage of the Californio resistance leaders like Dona Bernarda Ruiz. It was...

In this article: California, Kevin Starr, John Charles Fremont, Los Angeles, Miscegenation, and Cadre