Excerpt from Report of the Secretary of the Navy, Communicating Copies of Commodore Stockton's Despatches, Relating to the Military and Naval Operations in California, 1849 General Castro and the governor having collected at one time so large a force together, and our remaining inactive at Monterey, induced the belief that we were not willing to run the hazard of a fight, and that if we did we must be beaten. No one, foreigner or native, dared aid us even with advice or information. But since Castro and the governor have been driven out of the country, the aspect of things is changed, and all is going on as well as we ought to desire. By an intercepted correspondence between the military rom mandant at Mazatlan and General Castro, it appears that arrange ments were making to send troops into California, and General Castro is strongly urged to destroy the nefarious enemy. But it is too late. I take the opportunity of this communication to remind you of two things that may be of some importance to be remembered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.