Battle of Santa Clara (1847)

Battle of Santa Clara
	Part of the Conquest of California; Mexican–American War
	; U.S. Marines arriving in Santa Clara
Date	January 2, 1847
Location	Santa Clara, California
Result	American victory
Belligerents
Mexico	United States
Commanders and leaders
Francisco Sánchez	Ward Marston; James F. Reed
Strength
80 Lanceros	120 volunteers, reinforced by U.S. Marines & Sailors
Casualties and losses
4 killed; 5 wounded	2 wounded
	Sánchez surrendered January 6 to the Americans

The Battle of Santa Clara, nicknamed the "Battle of the Mustard Stalks",^[2] was a skirmish during the Mexican–American War, fought on January 2, 1847,^[3] 2+1⁄2 miles west of Mission Santa Clara de Asís in California.^[2]

In late December, the former Californio military commander of Yerba Buena and a rancher from the San Mateo peninsula, Francisco Sanchez, imprisoned the American Mayor of Yerba Buena, Washington Bartlett, and five of his men, who were all engaged in a foraging raid on the peninsula. After receiving the news of the abduction on December 29, Commodore Montgomery in San Francisco ordered Marine Captain Ward Marston to rescue Bartlett and his men. It was the only engagement of its type in Northern California during the war.^[4]

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^ ^a ^b Hoover, Mildred Brooke; Hero Eugene Rench; Ethel Grace Rench (1966) [1932]. "Santa Clara County: The Battle of Santa Clara". Historic Spots in California. revised by William N. Abeloe (3rd ed.). Stanford University Press. p. 451.
^ Osio, Antonio María (1996). The history of Alta California: a memoir of Mexican California. translators Rose Marie Beebe, Robert M. Senkewicz. Univ of Wisconsin Press. p. 313, n.24. ISBN 0-299-14974-9.
^ Regnery, Dorothy F. (1978). The Battle of Santa Clara, January 2, 1847: the only campaign in the northern district between the Californios and the United States Forces during the Mexican War. Smith and McKay.

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[Hoover-2] Hoover, Mildred Brooke; Hero Eugene Rench; Ethel Grace Rench (1966) [1932]. "Santa Clara County: The Battle of Santa Clara". Historic Spots in California. revised by William N. Abeloe (3rd ed.). Stanford University Press. p. 451.

[Osio-3] Osio, Antonio María (1996). The history of Alta California: a memoir of Mexican California. translators Rose Marie Beebe, Robert M. Senkewicz. Univ of Wisconsin Press. p. 313, n.24. ISBN 0-299-14974-9.

[4] Regnery, Dorothy F. (1978). The Battle of Santa Clara, January 2, 1847: the only campaign in the northern district between the Californios and the United States Forces during the Mexican War. Smith and McKay.

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