. A history of the United States for secondary schools . aLma*the southern side of the river. The following ^^^ ^^^^^week he crossed with his own army, took INIatamoras,and waited to be reinforced. There was a pause thenfor some months, in this quarter, while volunteers werebeing raised and other military preparations made. In the interval. General Kearney was ordered to movefrom Fort Leavenworth into New Mexico, and thenceto California, while Commodore Sloat, commanding oursquadron in the Pacific, was to seize desirable 1 i-. T r • At Seizure of pomts on the California coast. At the same caii
. A history of the United States for secondary schools . aLma*the southern side of the river. The following ^^^ ^^^^^week he crossed with his own army, took INIatamoras,and waited to be reinforced. There was a pause thenfor some months, in this quarter, while volunteers werebeing raised and other military preparations made. In the interval. General Kearney was ordered to movefrom Fort Leavenworth into New Mexico, and thenceto California, while Commodore Sloat, commanding oursquadron in the Pacific, was to seize desirable 1 i-. T r • At Seizure of pomts on the California coast. At the same caiiiornia,time orders went to Colonel John C. Fremont,who had been exploring the Rocky Mountain and Pacificcoast regions for some years, directing him to assist insecuring that northern California country which Polk 440 SECTIONAL CONTENTION. had marked for acquisition two years before. Fremont,Sloat, and Commodore Stockton, Sloats successor, to-gether with a few hundred American settlers, practicallytook possession of the country before Kearney JUonterey iff • !..? g •. FIELD OF GENERAL TAYLORS CAMPAIGN. The latter, meeting with no serious resistance, hadoccupied New Mexico, had established an Americangovernor at Santa Fe, and had declared the provinceannexed to the United States. From Santa F6 GeneralKearney had sent part of his command, under Colonel„ Doniphan, southward, throuo^h Chihuahua, to a Monterey, . ^ o September junction With General Taylor, who advancedin September from Matamoras to Monterey,capturing that fortified city after obstinate fighting forfour days (September 21-24). A new plan of campaign was now adopted, with Gen-eral Winfield Scott in chief command, and part ofTaylors army was called to assist Scotts movement onthe city of Mexico from Vera Cruz. At this junctureSanta Anna, who had regained power in Mexico, tookadvantage of the weakening of Taylor and attempted to EXPANSION TO THE PACIFIC. 441 overwhelm his smal
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