Baja Bernie
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Pio Pico in Baja
Found this while doing some research and thought some of you would find it interesting---
Pio Pico, last Mexican Governor of Alta California, speaking of the Yankee invasion of his state---
?What are we to do then? Shall we remain supine, while these daring strangers are overrunning our fertile plains, and gradually outnumbering and
displacing us? Shall these incursions go on unchecked, until we shall become strangers in our own land?"
Fled to what is now Baja California during the Mexican American War.
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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Oso
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" I didn't cross the border. The border crossed me."
Who said that?
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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Bruce R Leech
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Pio Pico better get use to it
Bruce R Leech
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David K
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Pio Pico's Baja Shelter
Here is where we were told Pio Pico stayed in Baja, after being run out of Alta California... It has even more history to it... Anyone want to guess
or say WHERE this is?
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John M
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San Vicente?
Perhaps - John M
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John M
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Pio Pico..a little more
At an earlier time, circa 1830, Pico received a nearly 9,000 acre land grant in what was to become Rancho Jamul, 20 or so miles s/e of present San
Diego. He stayed there until the the late 1830s when he became the last Mexican Governor of California. Pico abandoned Rancho Jamul and was later
involved in complicated ownership issues.
This attached photograph shows what was likely Pico's house at Jamul. This was many years before he took up what I believe was a short residency at
the place David K shows.
John
[Edited on 3-7-2006 by John M]
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David K
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Yes John!
It was previously the HQ for William Walker when San Vicente was the capital for his REPUBLIC OF LOWER CALIFORNIA!
Here is the flag...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Fl...
[Edited on 5-18-2017 by David K]
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