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Hace 2 días · United States Army Captain John C. Frémont, on a survey expedition of the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers with about 60 well-armed men, crossed the Sierra Nevada range in December 1845. They had reached the Oregon Territory by May 1846, when Frémont received word that war between Mexico and the U.S. was imminent.
Hace 2 días · The Union reorganized after Kernstown: McDowell's command became the Department of the Rappahannock, Banks's corps became the Department of the Shenandoah, while western Virginia (modern West Virginia) became the Mountain Department, commanded by Maj. Gen. John C. Frémont.
Hace 5 días · Also important were the expeditions of John C. Frémont in the 1840s. Frémont followed the North Platte River into Wyoming, went up the Sweetwater River to the south end of the Wind River Range (South Pass), and thence traveled southwestward into Utah.
Hace 4 días · A rival Republican candidate, John C. Frémont, nominated much earlier by a splinter group, was still in the field. Leading Radicals promised to procure Frémont’s withdrawal if Lincoln would obtain the resignation of his conservative postmaster general, Montgomery Blair .
Hace 2 días · Even then, Tucson tried to erase that history when in the early 1970s the Sosa-Carrillo name was dropped in favor of John C. Frémont, the controversial and brief Arizona Territorial governor...
Hace 4 días · When General John C. Frémont and General David Hunter, within their respective military departments, proclaimed freedom for the enslaved people of disloyal masters, Lincoln revoked the proclamations.
Hace 2 días · The pinnacle of his military career was his appointment as the General -in-Chief of all the Union armies on July 23, 1862. When he commanded the Department of the Missouri, he replaced Major Gen. John C. Frémont. His enlarged command won victories at Pea Ridge, Island #10, and Shiloh.
