AND TAKING POSSESSION OF
YERBA BUENA (San Francisco), CALIFORNIA
July 9, 1846
Carruth and Carruth, Oakland, CA. 1902. Illustration by W. A. Coulter.
Possession taken by Commander John B. Montgomery, USN, of the U. S. Sloop-of-War Portsmouth, on the morning of Jult 8, 1846, by order of Commodore John Drake Sloat, USN.
