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[Tigers] OT: The California Republic

To: Steve Laifman <SLaifman@SoCal.rr.com>,Tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: [Tigers] OT: The California Republic
From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:11:11 -0400
At 03:34 PM 10/2/2009, Steve Laifman wrote:
 >
 >O.K., there has been even less rainfall this year than when the State
 >was stolen from Mexico (or Spain?) in the 1850's.

The California Republic was declared in Sonoma by
1846 and the declaration freed the entire state
from Mexican rule.  25 days later, the US
military occupied California.  I'm surprised an
fervid a California enthusiast as Mr Laifman
would not be aware of these simple facts!  <he grins>

Marc


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