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country which nearly all American writers have unjustly ignored. After 

 the battle they retreated to Rancho San Pasqual, making their camp on the 

 south slope of what is now Raymond hill ; this hill was then 34 feet higher 

 than at present, and had a stream of water, and Jose Perez's old adobe 

 house [still standing, 1895,] and a fine oak grove on its south slope, extend- 

 ing down to and beyond the Monterey road. Sentinel horsemen were kept 

 posted on the peak of that hill', and also on the hills below South Pasadena, 

 to watch for an expected pursuit by the American cavalry.* But Stockton 

 paid no further attention to the Mexican army ; it was Los Angeles city he 

 was after, and there he went, marching in with flags flying and bands play- 

 ing, and took formal possession again on the morning of January 10. 



On September 6, 1894, Dona Luisa Garfias, who now resides at San 

 Diego, visited Arturo Bandini's family. It was the first time she had been 



on the old ranch since it was sold 

 from her, about thirty years ago ; 

 and as soon as she came in sight of 

 it, on the cars at South Pasadena, 

 her feelings overcame her and she 

 wept until she reached Bandini's 

 house. In course of conversation 

 she told Mrs. Bandini how she re- 

 membered seeing the Mexican horse- 

 men on top of Raymond hill, and 

 on the South Pasadena hills, watch- 

 ing for the American cavalry to 

 pursue them, after the battles of 

 January 8, and 9, 1847. She was 

 then at the house of her mother's 

 major domo, Camacho, near the 

 Garfias spring. 



Commodore Stockton took and 

 used as his headquarters the adobe 

 DONA ENCARNAcioN SEPULVEDA DE ABiLA house whicli is Still Standing, Nos. 



14, 16, 18, Olvera street, north of the plaza. It was the city home of 



*"The insurgent force under Flores, failing to make any impression upon the Americans in an at- 

 tack upon the marching column on the gth, was moved to San Pasqual, some five or six [8] miles north- 

 east of Los Angeles. * * On the night of the i ith, about midnight, Don Jose Jesus Pico came 

 into the camp of the Californians, at San Pasqual, and gave them the information that Col. Fremont 

 had reached San Fernando. * * After having met Col. Fremont at San Fernando, Messrs. Rico 

 and Dela Guerra returned to San Pasqual early in the morning of the 12th. [About noon.] Immediately 

 after their return to camp, Don Jose Antonio Carrillo and Don Augustin Olvera were appointed and 

 commissioned by General Pico, to meet and negotiate terms ol capitulation with commissioners to be 

 appointed by Col. Fremont. Gen. Pico immediately broke up his camp at San Pa.squal, and with his 

 entire command accompanied his commissioners to Providencia."— [Co/, y. y. IVarner, lu Cen/ennml 

 Hiitoryof Los Angeles County, p. 16. 



Providencia was a southwest portion of the San Raf.iel or Venluco ranch, on the Monterey road, 

 where Flores and Pico had stationed a small force to watch and report Fremont's movements. 



