Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon Papers,
- Dates:
- 1837-1854
- Creators:
- Raousset-Boulbon, Gaston Raoux, comte de, 1817-1854
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon Papers, California State Library.
Background
- Scope and content:
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A collection of carbon copies of transcripts in Spanish from the Mexican archives used in research for the book THE FRENCH IN SONORA.
- Biographical / historical:
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Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon was born in Avignon, France, on May 5, 1817. He led two filibuster expeditions from San Francisco against Sonora, Mexico in 1852 and 1854. The first expedition was under the guise of a mining company known as La Compenia Restauradora de la Mina de la Arizona. He captured Hermosillo, Sonora in 1852. A retreat to Guaymas resulted in his surrender to General Miguel Blanco. In 1854 he returned to Sonora. After a series of misunderstandings his French forces were defeated in the Battle of Guaymas, July 13, 1854, by the forces of Jose Maria Yanez. The Count was executed August 13, 1854.
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1999
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Unrestricted.
- Terms of access:
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Please credit California State Library.
Copyright has not been assigned to California State Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing. Permission for publication is given on behalf of California State Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon Papers, California State Library.
- Location of this collection:
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900 N Street, Room 200, P.O. Box 942837Sacramento, CA 94237-0001, US
- Contact:
- (916) 654-0176