Guide to the Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon Papers, 1837-1854
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Guide to the Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon Papers, 1837-1854
California State Library
Sacramento, California
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- California History Room
- California State Library
- Library and Courts Building II
- 900 N. Street, Room 200
- P.O. Box 942837
- Sacramento, California 94237-0001
- Phone: (916) 654-0176
- Fax: (916) 654-8777
- Email: cslcal@library.ca.gov
- URL: http://www.library.ca.gov/
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- The California State Library staff
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© 1999 California State Library. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1837-1854
Box Number: 882-888
Creator:
Raousset-Boulbon, Gaston Raoux, comte de, 1817-1854
Repository:
California State Library
Language:
English.
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Access Points
Filibusters
Mexico--History--1821-1861
Mexico--Politics and government--1821-1861
Apache Indians
Raousset-Boulbon, Gaston Raoux, comte de, 1817-1854
Contents
A collection of carbon copies of transcripts in Spanish from the Mexican archives used in research for the book
THE FRENCH IN SONORA.
Biography
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.
Box Box 882
General correspondence; baptismal account; biography; historical accounts; pamphlet; poetry; memory of the Senate and House
of Deputies; newspaper -
El Sonorense; proclamations; travelog; Apache Indians, 1837-1849.
Box Box 883
Apache Indians, 1850-1851.
Box Box 884
Apache Indians, 1852-1854.
Box Box 885
Military operations, 1851-1854; plans to annex Baja; new fears of invasion; invasion of Sonora; action at Hermosillo; official letters of French Legation.
Box Box 887
Count Raoussett-Boulbon; letter to diplomatic corps; expedition against Sonora; Sonora prepares; rumors in Central America;
French invaders; intercepted correspondence; invasion of Sonora; U.S. Consular letters; action at Guaymas; invasion preparations;
invasion of Sonora; 500 American filibusterers; American filibusterers; 300 adventurers.
