There is a high probability of a violent earthquake in Southern California. The time to prepare for it is before it happens.
Photo by Bill Beebe, from the L.A. Times Photographic Collection at UCLA Library.
1873. A view of what is now San Pedro. An old landmark, Deadman's Island, is seen in the background. During the United States war on Mexico in 1846, U.S. Navy Commodore Robert F. Stockton landed his forces at San Pedro, from where he then marched on Los Angeles. He encountered no resistance upon entering the city on August 13. The U.S. flag was then raised for the first time over Los Angeles. When he later moved on to capture San Diego, he left behind a small unit of U.S. Marines to garrison Los Angeles. The marines, however, failed to “win the hearts and minds” of Angelenos and inflicted petty bullying on residents. Soon, fed-up Angelenos revolted and forced the besieged Americans to surrender. The Americans were permitted to withdraw without harassment, if they marched to San Pedro to depart by sea. Upon arriving in San Pedro, the humbled Americans awaited evacuation by ship. Instead, an infuriated Stockton had no intention to evacuate anyone. He sent 200 additional troops to San Pedro, with orders to recapture Los Angeles. The newly reinforced American force then engaged in a poorly-executed attack on defending Angelenos at Rancho San Pedro (in modern Rancho Dominguez) in the "Battle of the Old Woman's Gun.” The Americans lost that fight and were forced again to withdraw to San Pedro for evacuation. Six men who had died from wounds in the fighting were left behind, buried on one of the two islands off San Pedro. That island had been the location of at least one other previous burial, described in Richard Henry Dana's 1840 book "Two Years Before the Mast." The island was thusly named La Isla de los Muertos or Deadman’s Island. From 1927 and 1929, as part of San Pedro Harbor redevelopment, the island was dredged away. The remains of the American marines and sailors buried on the island were moved to other military cemetaries in San Pedro and San Francisco. The island was believed to be located just west of the U.S. Coast Guard Base on Terminal Island.
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