Note 25 — XXX THE NAVAL OPERATIONS OF THE WAR 1845–1848

For the share of the navy in the conquest of California see chap. xvii. (Impossible) 13P. J. Blake of Juno, Apr. 10, 1848; 53Pakenham to Buchanan, Dec. 14, 1846; 13Id.., no. 57, 1846. (Proclam. and orders) Ho. 4; 29, 2, pp. 670, 673–4. Du Pont, Official Despatches, 9. (Cancelled, etc.) 53Pakenham to Buchanan, Dec. 14; 12Walker to Seymour, Mar. 26, 1847; 132Howland & Aspinwall to Buchanan, Sept. 22, 1847; 13Pakenham, no. 139, 1846; Sen. 1; 30, 1, p. 1303 (Mason); 48Mason to Biddle, Mar. 30, 1847; 48Orders, Dec. 24, 1846; 247Biddle to Larkin, Mar. 6, 1847. 47Stockton to Du Pont and to Hull, Aug. 20, 1846. 47Id.., reports, Aug. 22; Nov. 23. 47Hull to Stockton, Sept. 12. 47Du Pont to Stockton, Oct. 12. 76Peinbert to ——, res., undated. Calif. Star, i, no. 9. (Guaymas) Du Pont, Official Despatches, 13; 47Correspondence of Du Pont, Spanish vice consul, and Campusano; Sonorense, Oct. 9; 76comte. gen. of Sinaloa, Nov. 11; 76gov. Sonora, Oct. 16; 76Campusano, Oct. 5; Cyane, journal; U. S. Naval Instit. Proceeds., 1888, p. 539 (Rowan). (Mazatlán) 171Cyane, journal and abstract of journal; 47Du Pont to Stockton, Dec. 1; Id.., Official Despatches, 19; 12Walker to Seymour, Mar. 26, 1847; 76Téllez to Bustamante, Feb. 17, 1847; 13A. Forbes, Apr. 17, 1847; 13Bankhead, no. 9, 1847. Sen. 1; 29, 2, pp. 378–80. Sen. 1; 30, 1, 948. Balbontín, Estado, 19. Memoria de ... Guerra, Dec., 1846. (Spring) 120Shubrick to Biddle, May 4, 1847; 120list of captures. Wise, Gringos (N. Y., 1849), 82–100. 76Letter from Mazatlán, May 5; 247Biddle to Larkin, Mar. 6, 1847. 47Shubrick, May 31; June 1; Aug. 11, 1847. (Monopoly) 12Seymour, Dec. 26, 1846, no. 70. (After May) 61R. B. Mason to adj. gen., Feb. 1, 1848; 47Shubrick, May 31, 1847. Journ. Milit. Serv. Instit., xxxii, 249.