French Involvement in the California Gold Rush
On January twenty-fourth, of 1848, James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill, in California. However, it was Sam Brannan, who sparked the gold rush, announcing Marshall’s find to the public of San Francisco. In February of that same year, the United States defeated Mexico in the Mexican-American War after two long years at war. The pact, which ended the war, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, decreed that the United States would receive the California…
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