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Horse Raid

When
10 June 1846
Where
Route from San Rafael and Sonoma toward Santa Clara
Part of
Bear Flag Revolt and the California Republic at Sonoma

On June 10, 1846, some of the group who had been meeting with Frémont captured 170 Mexican government-owned horses from Californio soldiers moving them to Santa Clara.

Some of the group who had been meeting with Frémont departed from his camp and captured a herd of 170 Mexican government-owned horses being moved by Californio soldiers from San Rafael and Sonoma to Commandante General José Castro in Santa Clara. The passage describes the raid along this route; it does not specify a single raid location.

Sources

  1. California Republic Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-03

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.