California, San Bernardino County, Barstow
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He was “the Father of the US Calvary” and President Polk named him “Commander of the Army of the West”. In 1848 he went from Santa Fe, NM on to CA with 100 men on an arduous trip across our desert and on to a battle at San Pascual in a fight for independence from Mexico.
(Arts, Letters, Music • Exploration • War, Mexican-American) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
He was “the Father of the US Calvary” and President Polk named him “Commander of the Army of the West”. In 1848 he went from Santa Fe, NM on to CA with 100 men on an arduous trip across our desert and on to a battle at San Pascual in a fight for independence from Mexico.(Arts, Letters, Music • Exploration • War, Mexican-American) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.