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Years
1846
Bear Flag
American immigrants in
Alta California
rebel against the
Mexican
department’s government, raise a
flag featuring a grizzly bear
(pictured)
at
El Cuartel de Sonoma
, and establish the short-lived (and unrecognized)
California Republic
US Navy Commodore
John D. Sloat
claims California for the United States
during the
Mexican–American War
, and US Navy Captain
John Berrien Montgomery
and
US Marine
Second Lieutenant
Henry Bulls Watson of the
USS Portsmouth
arrives to claim
Yerba Buena
two days later by raising the American flag over the town plaza
Washington Allon Bartlett
is named
alcalde
of
Yerba Buena
Yerba Buena
doubles in population when about 240 Mormon pioneers arrive, among them
Samuel Brannan
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