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The Chumash revolt of 1824 was an uprising of the Chumash against the Spanish and Mexican presence in their ancestral lands. The rebellion began in three of the California Missions in Alta California: Mission Santa Inés, Mission Santa Barbara, and Mission La Purisima, and spread to the surrounding villages. [1]
On February 21, 1824, a young Chumash boy from Mission La Purisima was severely beaten by a Mexican soldier when he was visiting a relative imprisoned inside the Mission Santa Inés guardhouse. This brutal act caused the Chumash neophytes on the mission to take up arms against the soldiers, attacking them with arrows and setting multiple ...
Ruins of Mission La Purisima Concepcion, ca.1885-1904. Mission La Purísima was originally established at a site known to the Chumash people as Algsacpi and to the Spanish as the plain of Río Santa Rosa, one mile south of Lompoc.
1824 1824 The Chumash revolt of 1824 was an uprising of the Chumash Native Americans against the Spanish and Mexican presence in their ancestral lands. The rebellion began in 3 of the California Missions in Alta California: Mission Santa Inés, Mission Santa Barbara, and Mission La Purisima, and spread to the surrounding villages. [32]
In 1824, Pacheco successfully suppressed a revolt at Mission La Purísima Concepción, earning him the title of lieutenant. [1] In 1827, he was elected as a delegate of the provincial deputation of Alta California, serving until 1846. [1] Pacheco spent a good portion of his life acquiring various ranchos of California.
Ruins of Mission La Purisima: Lompoc: 1802 Mission: The original mission was destroyed during the 1812 Ventura earthquake. Only two 7 ft (2.1 m)-high wall fragments and building foundations remains. [22] Old Mission Dam: San Diego: 1803 Dam: First major irrigation project in California. [23] Mission San Gabriel Arcángel: San Gabriel: 1805 Church
Mission La Purísima, was founded west of Loreto in Baja California Sur, by the Jesuit missionary Nicolás Tamaral in 1720 and financed by the Marqués de Villapuente de la Peña and his wife the Marquesa de las Torres de Rada.
Argüello was Governor at the time of the Chumash Revolt of 1824. Nearly a month after the initial revolt on February 21, 1824, a company of 100 Mexican soldiers, cavalrymen and priests, as well as a four-pound cannon, arrived at La Purisima Mission in the morning, intent on violently crushing the rebellion. Argüello, had had enough chaos in ...