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The Battle of San Buenaventura was fought on March 27 and March 28, 1838, between forces representing competing claims to the governorship of California, then a Mexican territory. The opposing forces consisted of supporters of Juan Bautista Alvarado based in Northern California and supporters of Carlos Antonio Carrillo from Southern California .
The community is registered in the census as San Buenaventura (Ventura). [48] [49] Founded in 1782, the Mission Basilica of San Buenaventura is a parish of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. In 2020, Pope Francis elevated it to the category of basilica. The Serra Cross was first erected on top of Loma de la Cruz in 1782.
The Conquest of California, also known as the Conquest of Alta California or the California Campaign, was a military campaign during the Mexican–American War carried out by the United States in Alta California (modern-day California), then part of Mexico, lasting from 1846 to 1847, and ending with signing of the Treaty of Cahuenga by military leaders from both the Californios and Americans.
Battle of San Pasqual, ... Frémont near the San Buenaventura Mission, ... the population in California increased from 107,000 to 264,000 due to the California Gold ...
Ventura County (/ v ɛ n ˈ t ʊər ə / ⓘ) is a county located in the southern part of the U.S. state of California.As of the 2020 census, the population was 843,843. [10] [13] The largest city is Oxnard, and the county seat is the city of Ventura.
Mission San Buenaventura followed in 1782, Santa Barbara in 1786 and La Purisima in 1787, and finally Santa Ynez in 1804. [4] Like many other Native American peoples who lived near the missions, some converted to Christianity , some merely used the missions as a survival tool to weather the drastic ecological and demographic changes that the ...
The Campo de Cahuenga, (/ k ə ˈ w ɛ ŋ ɡ ə / ⓘ) near the historic Cahuenga Pass in present-day Los Angeles, was an adobe ranch house on the Rancho Cahuenga where the Treaty of Cahuenga was signed between Lieutenant Colonel John C. Frémont and General Andrés Pico in 1847, ending hostilities in California between Mexico and the United States.
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