Mariposa Battalion was a California Militia unit formed in 1851 to defeat the Ahwahnechee and Chowchillas in the Mariposa War, a part of the California...

California state government, under Governor John McDougall, raised the Mariposa Battalion led by Sheriff James D. Savage to subdue the indigenous people. The...

Look up mariposa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mariposa is the Spanish word for butterfly. It may also refer to: Mariposa, Ontario, former municipality...

the volunteer Mariposa Battalion as a punitive expedition against the Native Americans living in the Yosemite area. In 1851, the Battalion was led by Major...

Mexican–American War, and commander of the California Militia, Mariposa Battalion in the Mariposa War and the first alleged non-Native American visitor to the...

and loss of their lands and resources. The War and formation of the Mariposa Battalion was partially the result of a single incident involving James Savage...

white settlers escalated into the Mariposa War. As part of this conflict, settler James Savage led the Mariposa Battalion into Yosemite Valley in 1851, in...

the other tribes in the area. Lafayette Bunnell, the doctor of the Mariposa Battalion, wrote that "Ten-ie-ya was recognized, by the Mono tribe, as one of...

Burnett. As Governor, McDougal presided over the creation of the Mariposa Battalion, a state militia unit that killed over 40 indigenous native Californians...

for free solo climbing. The formation was named "El Capitan" by the Mariposa Battalion when they explored the valley in 1851. El Capitán ("the captain",...

and explorer. He is most well known for his involvement with the Mariposa Battalion, the first non-Indians to enter Yosemite Valley, and his book Discovery...

in Inyo County, California. He fought as a first sergeant in the Mariposa Battalion and later was a banker and a founder of the San Jose streetcar system...

after Chief Tenaya, who met the Mariposa Battalion near the shores of the Tenaya lake. In 1851, the Mariposa Battalion under Captain John Boling expelled...

Salt Lake to California." From 1850 to 1851 the Mariposa Battalion was raised to fight the Mariposa War in the Sierras. In 1851, the Garra Revolt occurred...

and force them into labor. 1851–52: The Mariposa War broke out between white settlers and the Mariposa Battalion, resulting in the displacement and killing...

sparked the Mariposa Indian War of 1850 to 1851. In 1851, during the Mariposa War, California State Militia troops of the Mariposa Battalion burned Ahwahnechee...

above Tenaya Creek. Lafayette H. Bunnell, a medical doctor with the Mariposa Battalion, notes that his party named the summit Clouds Rest because they returned...

Mariposa Battalion that traveled to the Yosemite Valley in 1851 to hunt down the Ahwaneechees and their leader Chief Tenaya. The Mariposa Battalion won...

Merced River. Bishop Creek was named for Samuel Addison Bishop of the Mariposa Battalion who settled near its banks. List of rivers of California U.S. Geological...

include Theodore Thure Strombeck, an early settler and member of the Mariposa Battalion and the local vigilantes. Coarsegold has previously had several names...

meaning relating to Spring - by Lafayette Bunnell, a member of the Mariposa Battalion in 1851. The trail begins at the Happy Isles trail head in Yosemite...

originally referred a tribe that was forced out of the area by the Mariposa Battalion. Previously, the area had been called "Ahwahnee" ("big mouth") by...

people who lived in Yosemite Valley before being driven out by the Mariposa Battalion. Tenaya protested that the lake already had a name: Pie-we-ack, or...

coastal lands during the Spanish-Mexican era. On April 14, 1851, the Mariposa Battalion was bivouacked at Camp Barbour located along the San Joaquin River...

state of California, organized the Mariposa Battalion to round up tribal representatives who were living on his Mariposa Rancho. Frémont pushed for federal...

revealed that a small detachment of the Mariposa Battalion had passed through the grove during the Mariposa War in 1851. The grove is now named for John...

Ahwahnechee. In 1851 the Mariposa Battalion was formed to drive the remaining Ahwahnechee out of the valley into reservations. The Battalion fought an Ahwahnechee...

Gold Rush. In the war he was a leader in the California Militia, and Mariposa Battalion that enter the Yosemite Valley. After the war he became a trader and...

the precedent for modern reservations in the United States. Mar 27 Mariposa Battalion, led by James D. Savage, are the first reported non-natives to enter...

uppermost "brother"), and Middle and Lower Brothers. Members of the Mariposa Battalion named the Three Brothers after the capture of the three sons of Chief...