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Olompali State Historic Park is a 700-acre (2.8 km 2) California State Park in Marin County, California.It consists of the former Rancho Olómpali and was the site of the famed Battle of Olómpali during the Bear Flag Revolt.
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. [7] Other immigrants and their families began moving into Sonoma to be under the protection of the muskets and cannon taken from the barracks.
Their flag, featuring a silhouette of a California grizzly bear, became known as the "Bear Flag" and was later the basis for the official state flag of California. Three weeks later, on July 5, 1846, the Republic's military of 100 to 200 men was subsumed into the California Battalion commanded by Brevet Captain John C. Frémont.
OF THE BEAR FLAG JUNE 14, 1846 [2] The monument is located on the northeastern corner of the Sonoma Plaza. This is the presumed spot where the Bear Flag Revolt took place. [5] Nearby the monument is another monument, a large boulder with a bronze plaque placed on it, that states that it is the location where the bear flag was raised. [6]
During the Bear Flag Revolt, on June 24, 1846, the Battle of Olómpali occurred when a violent skirmish broke out between a group of American Bear Flaggers from Sonoma, led by Henry Ford, [4] [5] and a Mexican army force of 50 from Monterey, under the command of Joaquin de la Torre.
The Mexican soldiers had stop for the night to rest the horses. Ezekial Merritt group was called the Bear Flaggers. The next main event in the Bear Flag Rebellion was on June 14, 1846, in Sonoma, the taking of the Mexican administrative capital. Thus the founding of the California Republic that lasted from June 14, 1846, to July 9, 1846.
Sutter's fort, the American flag raised July 1846. border. After delivering his messages, Gillespie and Frémont with his about 30 U.S. Army Cartographers, etc. and 30 scouts and hunters turned around and headed back to California where Frémont spurred on and took over the command of the Bear Flag Revolt of California.
: 170 Stockton accepted the Bear Flag revolutionaries, under the command of Major John C. Frémont, as the California Battalion.: 173 Stockton then garrisoned Sonoma, San Juan Bautista, Santa Clara, and Sutter's Fort.