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	Californians and the Military: Brigadier General Edward Fitzgerald Beale
		Edward Fitzgerald Beale was born Feb. 4, 1822 in the District of Columbia.
		Beale's party crossed southern Colorado and southern Utah assessing the feasibility of the route for a transcontinental railroad.
		Beale asked Lincoln for a Union Army command, but the president convinced him he could better serve the country by remaining as surveyor general and helping keep California in the Union.
	www.militarymuseum.org /EdBeale.html (737 words)

	AllRefer.com - Edward Fitzgerald Beale (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		During the Mexican War, Beale was in California, where he aided Stephen W. Kearny in the battle of San Pasqual by crawling through the lines with Kit Carson to get help.
		Later, during one of several trips across the continent, Beale was the first to bring east the news of the California gold strike.
		Beale was briefly (1876–77) also minister to Austria-Hungary.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Beale-Ed.html (224 words)

	Edward Fitzgerald Beale - Definition, explanation
		Beale, as Surveyor General of California and Nevada, had an important Los Angeles County passage named after him due to his widening of a cut used by the Butterfield Stage.
		Beale's Cut, as it was known, lasted as a transportation passage through the modern day Newhall Pass area until the construction of the Newhall Tunnel was completed in 1910.
		Beale's Cut is difficult to find easily for modern day individuals in the Newhall Pass vicinity because it is fenced off from the public's view and not close enough to Sierra Highway to be easily discovered.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/e/ed/edward_fitzgerald_beale.php (879 words)

	California Missions Resource Center - Stories
		A young U.S. Navy officer, Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1822-1893) was entrusted with the delivery of sensitive dispatches to Washington from Commodore Robert Stockton.
		Beale went on to play a critical role in the subsequent conflict with Mexico.
		A monument to this Arab pioneer was erected in 1935 in Quartside, Arizona.
	www.missionscalifornia.com /stories/camel.htm (464 words)

	Edward Fitzgerald Beale
		Edward Beale came to the future area of California from New England as a young Navy Lieutenant in the Mexican War in 1846.
		Beale's return with more dispatches was the beginning of his unprecedented seven trips back and forth across the continent on horseback between 1847-51.
		Beale and Grant were known to race their buggies through the streets of Washington DC on their way to Beale's horse farm outside of the city.
	www.frazmtn.com /~rrchs/beale.html (681 words)

	Beale I
		Edward Fitzgerald Beale--born in Washington, D.C., on 4 February 1822--was appointed to the Naval School at Philadelphia on 14 December 1836, and received his warrant as a passed midshipman on 1 July 1842.
		Beale went ashore at recently captured San Diego as part of a small force sent to guide Brigadier General Stephen W. Kearny's 1st Dragoons to that port.
		Edward Beale died in Washington on 22 April 1893.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/b4/beale-i.htm (809 words)

	Edward Fitzgerald Beale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beale, as Surveyor General of California and Nevada, had an important Los Angeles County passage named after him due to his widening of a cut used by the Butterfield Stage.
		Beale's Cut, as it was known, lasted as a transportation passage through the modern day Newhall Pass area until the construction of the Newhall Tunnel was completed in 1910.
		Beale, who had a house in Washington, DC as well as his Rancho Tejon dwelling, lived in both locations beginning in 1870.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_Fitzgerald_Beale (889 words)

	Military Installation Guides 2.0
		Beale's 23,000 acres of rolling hills, scenic pastureland, fresh water lakes and streams are situated at the north end of the Greater Sacramento Valley.
		Beale was named for Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1822-1893), the man who founded the Army Camel Corps and who was one of California's largest landholders.
		Beale graduated from the Naval Academy, served in the California militia, and led the Camel Corps experiment.
	benefits.military.com /misc/installations/Base_Content.jsp?id=385 (516 words)

	Beale, Edward Fitzgerald. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		During the Mexican War, Beale was in California, where he aided Stephen W. Kearny in the battle of San Pasqual by crawling through the lines with Kit Carson to get help.
		Later, during one of several trips across the continent, Beale was the first to bring east the news of the California gold strike.
		Beale was briefly (1876–77) also minister to Austria-Hungary.
	www.bartleby.com /65/be/Beale-Ed.html (163 words)

	JIM CLARK`S DESTROYER HOME PAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Beale was detached as one of a small force under Lieutenant Gillespie that left San Diego to join and guide General Kearny`s escort of the First dragoons into that garrison and joined General Kearny`s column just before the disastrous battles of San Pasqual and "San Bernardino", 6 and 7 December 1846.
		BEALE arrived off Olcinawa 1 April 1945 and furnished gunfire support for the landings which were made on the southwestern beaches of that island.
		BEALE remained at Norfolk until 31 January 1955 when she sailed for a second spring training cruise to the Caribbean, returning on 4 March 1955.
	www.angelfire.com /in/bowgen (3783 words)

	Beale Wagon Road
		Beale had had many years’ experience in the west, first with the U.S. Navy in California, then with Kit Carson and John C. Fremont, and later, on government business and explorations in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, and California.
		Perhaps the thing that Beale is most remembered for is the use of camels in his road-building expeditions.
		The Beale Wagon Road is still visible in many places today and has been well documented in north central Arizona by Jack Beale Smith in a series of booklets called Tales of the Beale Road.
	www.tomjonas.com /swex/beale.htm (258 words)

	Abobes of Rancho La Liebre - Historic Adobes of Los Angeles County by John R. Kielbasa ISBN: 0-8059-4172-X - Things To ...
		Davis agreed with Beale and on May 3, 1855, he persuaded Congress to allocated $30,000 to import camels to be used by the army in the Southwest.
		Beale, an excellent businesswoman, who was said to be the mastermind of the Beale land empire.
		Beale loaned $2,000 to A. Hudson and Oliver P. Robbins to construct a toll house on the north side of the pass.
	www.laokay.com /halac/RanchoLaLiebre.htm (2534 words)

	HPS Summit Signatures - Double Mountain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		At that time Beale was purchasing all available land in the vicinity and creating his mammoth (265,215 acre) Téjon Ranch.
		At one point Beale's boots dislodged a few stones, so they desperately tried crawling barefoot over slippery rocks and through nearly impenetrable chaparral until they were past the enemy lines.
		When they were safely distant, Beale's bloody and swollen feet would not accept his boots so he hiked barefoot for remaining 60 miles.
	angeles.sierraclub.org /hps/signatures/03d.htm (382 words)

	Greater Tehachapi History: 1860-1875
		Edward Fitzgerald Beale played a huge role in the history of Kern County.
		As Surveyor-General (among other things) for both California and Nevada, Beale was called upon to survey a road from New Mexico to California.
		James and Huldah Williams (from Texas, where he was a landowner and a deputy sheriff) moved to Tehachapi Valley settling on Brite Creek near the base of Black Mountain.
	www.tehachapicentral.com /community003003.html (550 words)

	The Army's bold experiment with the U.S. Camel Corps
		Beale left on a Western expedition in June, 1857, with Hi Jolly along as chief camel driver.
		Camels were loaded with 600 to 800 pounds each and traveled 25 to 30 miles a day.
		If the animals fared well, a series of Army posts could be set up later along the route to relay mail and supplies across the Southwest.
	www.outwestnewspaper.com /camels.html (643 words)

	Edward Fitzgerald Beale
		Edward F. Beale and the American West / Gerald Thompson.
		Beale's road across Northern Arizona / by Catherine Clover Briggs.
		Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a pioneer in the path of empire, 1822-1903, by Stephen Bonsal.
	jeff.scott.tripod.com /beale.html (137 words)

	Edward F. Beale, Sailor, Adventurer, Explorer (Part 1)
		Edward Fitzgerald Beale was born February 4, 1822, to George and Emily Truxtun Beale.
		Beale was next ordered to escort General Kearney, commander of the Army of the West, who was leading a small force to San Diego.
		Beale and two others were in charge of the field artillery but unfortunately Kearney had placed it at the back of his force, where it did little good.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/old_west/113435 (459 words)

	History2
		In 1857 Congress commissioned Lieutenant Edward Fitzgerald Beale to chart a wagon road following the 35th parallel from Fort Defiance (near the New Mexico/Arizona border) to the Colorado River.
		Beal's Road, as the route came to be identified, established a vital military transportation and communication link between Fort Smith near the Arkansas River and the westernmost reaches of the Southwest.
		Beal's Road was the frontier antecedent of Route 66.
	www.route66patrol.com /history2.htm (1262 words)

	Terms from Edmund Malone to Eris
		Edward (Francis Charles Publius) De Bono Biography (1933–)
		Edward G Robinson Biography (1893–1973) (originally Emanuel Goldenberg)
		Edward Zane Carroll Judson Biography (1823–86) (pseudonym Ned Buntline)
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /Cambridge/Edmund-Malone_to_Eris.html (533 words)

	Edward Fitzgerald "Ned" Beale
		Beale performed an invaluable service to the citizens of the small community of Los Angeles by using troops to dig by hand Beale‘s Cut over the Fremont Pass later called the Newhall pass, near present day Sylmar.
		Beale in 1863, to allow "relatively" easy travel to points north.
		Edward F. Beale was a very fascinating individual to research.
	www.drumbarracks.org /original%20website/Edward%20F%20Beal%20Bio%20.html (950 words)

	Louis J Warfel's "My Book of Old Chester": Part II
		EDWARD F. Edward Fitzgerald Beale was a famous American who lived for some year in Chester.
		Beale went to North Africa and arranged for the purchase of eighty camels.
		In 1875 Edward Beale was appointed as Minister to Austria by President Grant.
	www.oldchesterpa.com /history_warfel_2.htm (8005 words)

	Edward FitzGerald — Infoplease.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Edward Fitzgerald Beale - Beale, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Edward Fitzgerald, 1822–93, American frontiersman, b.
		Progressivism in Australia: the case of John Daniel Fitzgerald 1900-1922.
		The occidental tourist: the counter-orientalist gaze in Fitzgerald's last novels.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0818802.html (277 words)

	Tejon Ranch : Community Relations
		Being a good neighbor and contributing to the community are part of the legacy that started with the Gen. Edward Fitzgerald Beale family, founders of the Ranch as we know it today.
		Among the more visible legacies that exist today are Beale Library, the first public library in Kern County, and Truxtun Avenue in Bakersfield, named after the General’s only son.
		Mary E. Beale and her son Truxtun in memory of their late husband and father.
	www.tejonranch.com /community/community.asp (647 words)

	Camel Experiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		In later years Beale told his son that the idea occurred to him when he was exploring Death Valley with Kit Carson, with the Abbe's book in his saddlebag.
		It was Beale's duty to convoy the camels from Texas to California, which he did in 1857.
		At first Gen. Beale thought the animals were going to fail; they appeared likely to give out, their backs got sore.
	www.sallysfamilyplace.com /Wheeler/camels.htm (3750 words)

	Beale Edward Fitzgerald - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Beale Edward Fitzgerald - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Beale, Edward Fitzgerald (1822-1893), American naval officer, courier, and pioneer, born in Washington, D.C., and educated at the U.S. Naval...
		FitzGerald, Edward (1809-1883), English poet and translator, born near Woodbridge, Suffolk, and educated at the University of Cambridge.
	encarta.msn.com /Beale_Edward_Fitzgerald.html (131 words)

	The Gold Ledge - Willow Springs, Rosamond, Calif.
		During his career, Beale founded Fort Tejon, and is also credited with establishing the Camel Corps at the instigation of U.S. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis (later president of the Confederate States) who believed they'd be ideal pack animals in the American desert.
		Beale also set up the Indian Reservation System when he served as superintendent of Indian Affairs for California and New Mexico.
		During the period of his military service, Beale dispossessed all claimants from all the old Spanish and Mexican land grants of the area and purchased the land from the government at an average of 5 cents an acre.
	www.goldledge.com /history/docs_html/willow.html (1939 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Beadie to Beales
		Beal, Ellen — of Lansing, Ingham County, Mich. Candidate for
		Son of George Beale and Emily (Truxton) Beale; married 1849 to Mary Edwards; father of Truxtun Beale.
		Beales, T. — of Newark, Wayne County, N.Y. Mayor of Newark, N.Y. Still living as of 1954.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/beadle-beales.html (955 words)

	Beale Family
		George Beale and Emily Truxton were married in Philadelphia 4 May 1819, the Rt Rev William White, Bishop of Pennsylvania and Rector of Christ Church officiating.
		George Beale was born in 1792 in Hampton VA, son of George Beale Sr of Norfolk VA and of Washington DC by his first wife Mary Dixon.
		George Beale "Sr" aged about 65 years, formerly of Norfolk VA died 9 Dec 1823 at the residence of his son in Washington DC as noticed in the National Intelligence of next day.
	www.sallysfamilyplace.com /Wheeler/beale.htm (2478 words)

	Uncle Sam's Camels
		Camels, it was presumed, would fare much better than horses and mules in the desert's punishing climate and terrain, and therefore could be used to transport supplies to frontier forts more quickly.
		Edward Fitzgerald Beale led the nation's first and only "camel corps" expedition from Texas to California in 1857.
		Originally published in 1929, Lesley's study was one of the first to treat this curiosity in U.S. military history, and it remains the definitive text on the subject.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/HL2205.html (424 words)

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