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Reading Notes Week 3

Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
·     Born Monterey
·     Son of Ignacio Vallejo 
·     Military career began at 15

The Bear Flag Party
·      California's incoming wave of American settlers, but the Mexican government wanted the intruders expelled.
·     Hostility
·     “ I am of the opinion that it has been intentional, for it seems that a hidden but powerful hand has taken great pains to garble all the facts relative to the capture of the Sonoma plaza by the group of adventurers to whom history has given the name of “The Bear Flag Party” (125).
·      Americans distrusted their Mexican leaders
·      With a cotton sheet and some red paint, they constructed a makeshift flag with a crude drawing of a grizzly bear, a lone red star and the words “California Republic” at the bottom. From then on, the independence movement was known as the Bear Flag Revolt.
o   “This flag was nothing more nor less than a strip of white cotton stuff with a red edge and upon the white part, almost in the center, were written the words “California Republic” (125).

o  The "Bear Flag Republic" took its name from the flag adopted by a group of American settlers who declared Californian independence from Mexico and then enforced their declaration by the capture of Sonoma under a flag bearing the image of a California bear.
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