– THIS DAY IN HISTORY: U.S. takes San Francisco from Mexico – 1846:
An American naval captain occupies the small settlement of Yerba Buena, a site that will later be renamed San Francisco.
Europeans did not encounter the spectacular San Francisco Bay until 1769, although several explorers had sailed by it in earlier centuries. When Spanish explorers finally found the bay in that year, they immediately recognized its strategic value. In 1776, the Spanish built a military post on the tip of the San Francisco peninsula and founded the mission of San
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