Within a week, seventy more volunteers had…
July 1846 CE
Within a week, seventy more volunteers had joined the rebels' force, which grows to nearly three hundred in early July.
This event, led by William B. Ide, becomes known as the Bear Flag Revolt.
On June 25, Frémont's party had arrived to assist in an expected military confrontation.
San Francisco, at this time called Yerba Buena, had been occupied by the Bear Flaggers on July 2.
On July 5 Frémont's California Battalion is formed by combining his forces with many of the rebels.
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