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Mexican-American War
Episode62

March 29, 2021

Marines, Mormons, and the End of the Pacific War

Marines, Mormons, and the End of the Pacific War
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This episode picks up at the end of the U.S. campaign in California, as the military shifted from combat operations to controlling and organizing newly claimed territory. We follow the final actions of Commodore Stockton and Captain Archibald Gillespie as they transition out of California and back to Washington. We also dig into the larger impact of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the growing global role of the Marine Corps, and the leadership legacy of Commandant Archibald Henderson.

References

  1. Emory, W. H. (1848). Notes of a Military Reconnoissance: From Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Including Parts of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers. United States: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, printers.
  2. Fulkerson, S. V., Stevenson, G. J., & Historical Society of Washington County, Virginia. (January 01, 1992). To the halls of Montezuma: Samuel Vance Fulkerson's journal kept during the Mexican War. Historical Society of Washington County, Va. Bulletin, 29.)
  3. Gillespie, A. H. (1845). Archibald H. Gillespie papers.
  4. Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly. (1901). United States: Historical Society of Southern California.
  5. Horsman, R. (2009). Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism. United Kingdom: Harvard University Press.
  6. J. Gregg Layne Papers (Collection 188). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
  7. Johannsen, R. W. (1988). To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press.
  8. John Adam Hussey; The Origin of the Gillespie Mission. California Historical Society Quarterly 1 March 1940; 19 (1): 43–58. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/25160859
  9. John O'Sullivan, "Annexation," The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 17 (New York: 1845), 5-6, 9-10.
  10. Porter, V. M. (1911). General Stephen W. Kearny and the Conquest of California (1846-7): A Paper Read Before the Historical Society of Southern California, February 6, 1911. United States: (n.p.).
  11. Richard R. Stenberg, Archibald H. Gillespie; Further Letters of Archibald H. Gillespie: October 20, 1845, to January 16, 1846, to the Secretary of the Navy. California Historical Society Quarterly 1 September 1939; 18 (3): 217–228. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/25160822
  12. Rives, G. L. (1913). The United States and Mexico, 1821-1848: A History of the Relations Between the Two Countries from the Independence of Mexico to the Close of the War with the United States. United States: C. Scribner's Sons.

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