The book Gentlemen Rovers By E Alexander Powell was written by author Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander), 1879- Here you can read free online of Gentlemen Rovers By E Alexander Powell book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Gentlemen Rovers By E Alexander Powell a good or bad book?
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Realizing the value of these horses to the settlers in the guerilla campaign which seemed likely to ensue, Fremont succeeded in capturing them after a sharp skirmish with the Mexicans. Hurrying back to Sonoma, he learned that during his absence Ide and his men had re pulsed an attack by a body of Mexican regulars, under General de la Torre, reinforced by a band of ruffians and desperadoes led by an outlaw named Padilla, inflicting so sharp a defeat that the only enemies left in that part of the... country were the scattered fugitives from this force, these being hunted down and summarily dealt with by the frontiersmen. Having now irrevocably com mitted himself to the insurgent cause, and feeling 172 The Flag of the Bear that, if he were to be hanged, it might as well be for a sheep as for a lamb, Fremont decided on the capture of San Francisco. The San Francisco of 1846 had little in common with the San Francisco of to-day, remember, for on the site where the great Western metropolis now stands there was nothing but a village consisting of a few-score adobe houses and the Mexican presidio, or fort, the latter containing a considerable supply of arms and ammunition.
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