Another expedition, a company of five hundred…

January 1847 CE

Another expedition, a company of five hundred Mormon volunteers from Utah led by Phillip St. George Cooke, arrives in San Diego “half-naked and half-fed” in late January, their numbers much-reduced by their march to Santa Fe and across the blazing deserts of southern New Mexico and Arizona.

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San Diego San Diego California United States View →

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United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Santa Fe de Nuevo México View → Mormons, or Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints View → Mexico, Second Federal Republic of View → California Territory View → Mormon Battalion View →

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Jacksonian Democracy (United States) View → “Manifest Destiny” and American Expansion; 1840-1851 View → Mexican-American War View →

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