Standing orders for the comandante of the Guard at the fortaleza de San Joaquín on sighting ships: sentinel signals with a cannon shot, all artillerymen gather at the fort; no foreign-vessel boat permitted to land; if the ship is a warship, raise the flag + fire a blank cannon; if merchant, omit the blank — a Mexican-period coast-defense / foreign-vessel protocol
| Date | 1827-04-21 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | (unsigned) |
| Place | San Diego |
| Series | Dep. State Papers, Benicia (Military) |
| Tomo | LIII–LXVIII (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | LXIV.107–8 |
| Scan leaf | n302 |
| Document type | abstract |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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(unsigned), San Diego, 1827-04-21, Dep. State Papers, Benicia (Military), LXIV.107–8, Archives of California, C-A 18, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. [the tomo is given as the volume’s full range: this entry has not been resolved to a single tomo within LIII–LXVIII]Cite the document by series, tomo and original tomo page, as the literature does; the C-A number locates it in the repository. To cite this catalogue entry itself, use https://archivesofcalifornia.com/record/ca18/ca18-d314.htmlThe originals of these records burned in the 1906 San Francisco fire. What survives is Thomas Savage’s 1870s copy, and this page describes that copy.
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