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Capitulo 11 As the wedding cavalcades scattered, and Major McCormick embarked toward shore, and Commodore Jones looked on from the quarterdeck, pacing and restless; as Captain Rafael Rafael felt his heart yearn toward the shore as toward a forgotten home, and Hannibal roundly thought out how to bring his unbroken story of generations to this New Africa; as Chips half wished for war to break out, and half wished for someone to realize that the ship was leaking, and William Waxdeck was already beginning to compose couplets on the glorious victory of the National Intention; as Jack Chase laughed from the maintop , and young Jimmy F. Bush was looking to the east to see if his parents were coming over the horizon - the leading men of Monterey met in the office of the ex-Governor of California, Juan B. Alvarado, to discuss the unprecedented state of being under attack. Don Ignacio entered, still in his wedding finery, just in time to hear the ex-Governor thank God in a loud voice that the newly appointed governor had arrived in Los Angeles. - I won't surrender, he said. I can't surrender. Let Governor Micheltorena do it. - Patriotism and our national honor demand we fight, said +~ 91 - 101 -+ Yankee Doodle keep it up Yankee Doodle Dandy Then he saw the American flag slowly raised over the decrepit round blockhouse at the corner of the crumbling, defenseless fort. The lieutenant of guns, down in the ship's waist, called out - Three cheers for the United States! Three cheers for Commodore Jones! Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah! +~ 102 -<~- ...

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