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English
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William Brown Ide : Mormon president of the Republic of California
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Mormon Historical Studies
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2015
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Sandy, UT
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Mormon Historic Sites Foundation
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2-33
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On June 14,1846, a motley group of two dozen American immigrants,
acting on rumors that they were about to be expelled from Alta, California,
rode from the Napa Valley to the Mexican garrison in Sonoma. There,
encountering no resistance, they captured Lt. Gen. Mariano Guadalupe
Vallejo. What happened next is clouded by contradictory accounts, but
according to the teetotaler William Brown Ide, he was made the leader of
the rebel band after the nominal leaders succumbed to the Mexican general’s
brandy while negotiating the terms of surrender. However it happened, the
Mexican flag was lowered, a new flag with a crude bear, a star, and a single
stripe was raised, and Ide was proclaimed by the men as the Commander
in Chief of the new Republic of California.