338 CONQUEST OF CALIFORNIA 



but they were again driven from the field, and on the 10th the 

 American army entered the capital in triumph. They had 

 lost one private killed, and thirteen of their number wounded 

 in the two fights. The enemy carried off their dead and 

 wounded, so that the extent of their loss is unknown, but both 

 General Kearney and Commodore Stockton estimate it at 

 between seventy and eighty. The insurgents fled and sur- 

 rendered to Major Fremont, who met them as he was ap- 

 proaching the capital. 



Major Fremont joined the forces of Kearney and Stockton 

 at the City of the Angels on the 15th of January, and it was 

 here the misunderstanding arose between General Kearney and 

 himself, which for so long a time excited public attention. In 

 January, 1847, Commodore Shubrick arrived at Monterey, 

 and assumed the command, of the naval forces on that station. 

 Soon after this Lieutenant-Colonel Cooke joined General 

 Kearney at San Diego with the Mormon battalion, which 

 enabled the General to provide against any reinforcements 

 from the Mexican province of Senoura to the Californians, 

 by stationing it as a guard and garrison at the Mission of 

 San Luis Rego. Captain Tompkins arrived in the country in 

 February, with his company of U. S. Artillery, and was 

 stationed at Monterey, and the arrival of Colonel Steven- 

 son, with his regiment of New York Volunteers, formed such 

 a force as was considered sufficient to overawe all disaffec- 

 tion and opposition. 



In July, three companies of the New York regiment 

 were stationed at La Paz, in Lower California, under Lieu- 

 tenant-Colonel Burton. They numbered about one hundred 

 men, with two pieces of artillery. The United States sloop-of- 

 war " Dale" cruised for some time in the vicinity, and afforded 

 protection to the garrison in La Paz, but Commodore Shu- 



