{"product_id":"alcance-al-sonorense-num-9-o4ozxktu","title":"ALCANCE AL SONORENSE, NUM. 9.","description":"\u003cp\u003eA very good copy of this unlikely survival. The majority of official material we see from the Mexican-American war are straightforward decrees. This is far more dramatic, full of war-time rhetoric and patriotism, as it describes the events at Guaymas on 9 October, 1846.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGuaymas was an important, strategic port in the Gulf of California. The \u003cem\u003eCyane\u003c\/em\u003e had already been active in the war, blockading San Blas on 2 September, before moving on to La Paz on the 14th, and then to Guaymas where she arrived on 6 October, 1846. Captain Samuel F. Du Pont arrived at Guaymas on the \u003cem\u003eCyane\u003c\/em\u003e and demanded that Mexican ships in port surrender. Colonel Antonio Campuzano refused and here reports the subsequent burning and sinking of two launches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAntonio Campuzano, military commander at Guaymas writes: “I hasten to communicate these events to Your Excellency, enclosing the address that I have just given to the people and troops under my command, adding that the enthusiam of both is great and has increased upon hearing the enemy’s bombardment.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe speech reads in part: “Sonorans, comrades in arms: you have already heard the explosion of our enemys cannon: hostilities have broken out, therefore, we must now die in defense of our homeland, without allowing the Sonoran soil to be trampled by their vile footsteps … LONG LIVE THE MEXICAN REPUBLIC and death to all our perfidious enemies.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA second communication by Rafael Ceballos is printed in the right column which concludes: “my attention is primarily called to the duty of occupying myself with Guaymas, currently harassed by our enemies, the North Americans.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEerily prescient, these events took place almost a year to the day prior to the Battle of Guaymas. Capt La Vallette, commanding USS \u003cem\u003eCongress\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePortsmouth\u003c\/em\u003e, bombarded the city, similarly enforced an evacuation and then dismantled its coastal defenses. USS \u003cem\u003ePortsmouth\u003c\/em\u003e remained in the bay to not only control access to it, but to levy tariffs on any craft looking to trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRare: not in OCLC\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Maggs Bros.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48674945630365,"sku":"258112","price":3000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/store.maggs.com\/products\/alcance-al-sonorense-num-9-o4ozxktu","provider":"Maggs Bros.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}