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Junípero Serra, a Majorcan Franciscan, had been named "Father Presidente" After King Charles III had ordered the Jesuits expelled from "New Spain" on February 3, 1768.
The Spanish Visitor General, José de Gálvez, had in May 1768 planned a four-prong expedition to settle Alta California, two by sea and two by land, which Gaspar de Portolà had volunteered to command.
The Portolà party, the first overland exploration of the northwestern portion of the state, arrives at the site of present-day San Diego on June 29, 1769, where it establishes the Presidio of San Diego.
Serra founds San Diego de Alcalá on July 16 as the first of what is to be the twenty-one missions of the the Alta California chain.
Smith pioneers the overland route to California through the Great Basin and the Sierra Nevadas in 1826—27.
Commodore Robert Stockton replaces Sloat on July 23 and sails down the coast, landing troops led by Frémont at San Diego and putting ashore an additional force near Los Angeles.
As Frémont lands in San Diego, ...
Stockton and Mervine now set up a base of operations at San Diego.
...San Diego by the end of October.
Kearney’s force, approaching San Diego on December 6, 1846, engages the rebel Californios at the inconclusive Battle of San Pascual, where Kearney himself is among the wounded.
Brigadier General Kearny and his force of about one hundred men, who had performed a grueling march across New Mexico and the Sonoran Desert, had crossed the Colorado River in late November, 1846.
Stockton had sent a thirty-five-man patrol from San Diego to meet them.
On December 7, one hundred lancers under General Andrés Pico (brother of the governor), tipped off and lying in wait, fight Kearny's army of about one hundred and fifty at the Battle of San Pasqual, where twenty-two of Kearny's men (one of whom later dies of wounds), including three officers, are killed in thirty minutes of fighting.
The wounded Kearny and his bloodied force had pushed on until they had to establish a defensive position on "Mule Hill".
However, General Pico keeps the hill under siege for four days until a two hundred and fifteen-man American relief force arrives.
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.