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Aguillon family as a residence. Vallejo's two sons, Uladislao and Napoleon leased part of the building in 1872-73 for their winemaking operation in exchange for one quarter of the profits. Mr. Newman rented part of the building in 1877 to grow silk worms experimentally.
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Californian government horses which they feared would be used against them. They next determined to seize the Pueblo of Sonoma to deny the Californians a rallying point north of San Francisco Bay. Capturing the arms and military materiel (stored in the barracks) and Lieutenant
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California for the United States. The barracks served as housing for a number of former Bears and their families after the California Battalion left. Most of those remaining Bears eventually returned to their homes. The Sonoma
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and his mapping expedition group arrived in Sonoma on June 24, throwing off any pretense of neutrality. On July 5 Frémont proposed to the Bears that they unite with his party and form a single military group under his command. A compact was drawn up which all volunteers of the
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nine of the insurgents who did not favor forming a new republic. The barracks became the headquarters for the remaining twenty-five who founded the new
California Republic and created its Bear Flag. The rebellion subsequently became known as the Bear Flag Revolt.
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Francisco Bay to protect the area from encroachments of foreigners. An immediate concern was further eastward movement of the
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