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John B. Montgomery (USAF)
John Berrien Montgomery (1794 – March 25, 1872) was an officer in the United States Navy who rose up through the ranks, serving in the War of 1812, Mexican–American War and the American Civil War, performing in various capacities including the commanding of several different vessels. Biography Montgomery was born in Allentown, New Jersey. He entered the Navy as a midshipman during the War of 1812, serving in the attack on Kingston, Upper Canada, in November 1812, and in the capture of York in April of the following year; and for gallantly on board the in Perry's victory on Lake Erie, September 10, 1813. For his distinguished service he received a vote of thanks and a sword from Congress. In 1815 he served in Decatur's squadron in the Second Barbary War against Algiers, was made a lieutenant in 1818, and commander in 1839. His commands included the sloop-of-war in 1844, and the steam frigate in 1857. He served as Commandant of the Boston Navy Yard from June 1862 to December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allentown, New Jersey
Allentown is a borough located in western Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, bordering adjacent Mercer County. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 1,734, a decrease of 94 (−5.1%) from the 2010 census count of 1,828, which in turn reflected a decline of 54 (−2.9%) from the 1,882 counted in the 2000 census. The borough is nestled within central New Jersey, and is roughly equidistant between New York City and Philadelphia. History Allentown was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on January 29, 1889, from portions of Upper Freehold Township, based on the results of a referendum held that day.Snyder, John P''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968'' Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 177. Accessed May 30, 2024. The borough was named for settler Robert Burnet's son-in-law, Nathan Allen or for William Allen, who served as Chief Justice of the Province of Penn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elie A
Elie may refer to: People * Elie (given name) * Elie (surname) Places *Elie, Fife, a village in Scotland, now part of the town of Elie and Earlsferry *Elie, Manitoba, Canada **Elie, Manitoba tornado See also *Elie Hall, Grenada *Elie House, country house in Elie, Fife, Scotland * *Eli (other) *Elia (other) *Élie, the French equivalent of "Elias" or "Elijah" *Ellie (other) Ellie or Elly is a given name and nickname. It may also refer to: __NOTOC__ Arts and entertainment * ''Ellie'' (film), a 1984 comedy * "Ellie" (''CSI''), an episode of the American crime drama ''CSI'' * "Ellie" (''The West Wing''), an episode of ... * Ely (surname) {{disambiguation, given name, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonoma, California
Sonoma () is a city in Sonoma County, California, United States, located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. Sonoma is one of the principal cities of California's Wine Country and the center of the Sonoma Valley AVA. Sonoma's population was 10,739 as of the 2020 census,''Population.'' In: ''QuickFacts: Sonoma city, California.'' Census, April 1, 2020. Census.gov. Retrieved March 18, 2022. while the Sonoma urban area had a population of 31,479. Sonoma is a popular tourist destination, owing to its Californian wineries, noted events like the |
Bear Flag
The Bear Flag is the official flag of the U.S. state of California. The precursor of the flag was first flown during the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt and was also known as the Bear Flag. A predecessor, called the Lone Star Flag, was used in an 1836 independence movement; the red star element from that flag appears in the Bear Flag of today. Current flag Law and protocol The 1911 statute stated: In 1953, the design and specifications for the state flag were standardized in a bill signed by Governor Earl Warren and illustrated by Donald Graeme Kelley of Marin County, California. The Californian state flag is often called the "Bear Flag" and in fact, the present statute adopting the flagCalifornia Government Code § 420 states: "The Bear Flag is the State Flag of California." Pursuant tSection 439 of the California Government Code the regulations and protocols for the proper display of the flag of California is controlled by the California Adjutant General: When the flag is di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Warren Revere (general)
Joseph Warren Revere (May 17, 1812 – April 20, 1880) was a career United States Navy and Army officer. He was the grandson of American Revolutionary War figure Paul Revere. He was an amateur artist and autobiographer, publishing two novels: ''A Tour of Duty in California'' (1849) and ''Keel and Saddle'' (1872)''.'' Both novels include memoirs of his experience traveling in the military. He was involved in the African Slave Trade Patrol, the Second Seminole War, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War. He was heavily involved in the 1845-1846 Conquest of California, wherein American troops invaded Alta California. Afterwards, he created a plantation in Rancho San Geronimo (near San Francisco, California), which used forced labor of Coast Miwok workers. During the American Civil War, Revere was a Union brigadier general who was court-martialed after the 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville. Revere challenged the court-martial and published multiple pamphlets in attempt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portsmouth Square
Portsmouth Square (), formerly known as Portsmouth Plaza, and originally known as Plaza de Yerba Buena, or simply La Plaza, is a one-block plaza () in Chinatown, San Francisco, California. Portsmouth Square is the first park in San Francisco, predating both Washington Square (1847) and Union Square (1850). Established in the early 19th century, during the period of Mexican California, the plaza was renamed following the U.S. Conquest of California in honor of the USS Portsmouth, the American ship which captured the city. It is bounded by Kearny Street on the east, Washington Street on the north, Clay Street on the south, and Walter Lum Place on the west. History Early history Portsmouth Square is located on the site of the first public square, ''The Grand Plaza'', established in the early 19th century in the Mexican community of Yerba Buena. The site was first used as a public gathering site in 1833; it was set aside as an official plaza in 1835. Jean Jacques Vioget was commi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of 2024, San Francisco is the List of California cities by population, fourth-most populous city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population, 17th-most populous in the United States. San Francisco has a land area of at the upper end of the San Francisco Peninsula and is the County statistics of the United States, fifth-most densely populated U.S. county. Among U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco is ranked first by per capita income and sixth by aggregate income as of 2023. San Francisco anchors the Metropolitan statistical area#United States, 13th-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S., with almost 4.6 million residents in 2023. The larger San Francisco Bay Area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yerba Buena, California
Yerba Buena was an anchorage spot and later a settlement that grew into the city of San Francisco, California. The settlement, built in an area known earlier as ''El Paraje de Yerba Buena'' and named for an herb that grew abundantly there, was founded in 1834 and was located near the northeastern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, on the shores of Yerba Buena Cove. Yerba Buena was the first civilian settlement in San Francisco, which had previously only had indigenous, missionary, and military settlements, and was originally intended as a trading post for ships visiting San Francisco Bay. The settlement was arranged in the Spanish style around a plaza that remains as the present day Portsmouth Square. The area that was the Yerba Buena settlement is now in the Financial District and Chinatown neighborhoods of San Francisco. History Background Spanish colonial and Mexican settlements in Alta California were of five types. The '' misiónes'' (missions) were religious settle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bear Flag Revolt
The California Republic, or Bear Flag Republic, was an List of historical unrecognized states#Americas, unrecognized breakaway state from Second Federal Republic of Mexico, Mexico, that existed from June 14, 1846 to July 9, 1846. It militarily controlled an area north of San Francisco, in and around what is now Sonoma County, California, Sonoma County in California. In June 1846, thirty-three Americans in Mexico, American immigrants in Alta California who had entered without official permissionBancroft; IV: 598–608 rebelled against the Mexican department's"Department" was a territorial and administrative designation used by Centralist Republic of Mexico, Mexico's centralized government under the Seven Laws of 1836. government. Among their grievances were that they had not been allowed to buy or rent land and had been threatened with expulsion.Richman p 308 Mexican officials had been concerned about a coming war with the United States and the growing influx of Americans in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Californias
The Californias (), occasionally known as the Three Californias or the Two Californias, are a region of North America spanning the United States and Mexico, consisting of the U.S. state of California and the Mexican states of Baja California and Baja California Sur. Historically, the term ''Las Californias'' was used to define the vast northwestern region of Spanish America, as the Province of the Californias (), and later as a collective term for Alta California and the Baja California peninsula. Originally a single, vast entity within the Spanish Empire, administration was split into Baja California (''Lower California'') and Alta California (''Upper California'') following the Mexican War of Independence. As a part of the Mexican–American War (1846–48), the Conquest of California saw the vast Alta California territory ceded from Mexico to the United States. The populated coastal region of the territory was admitted into the Union in 1850 as the State of California, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
