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 CHAPTER VII.

RULE AND OVERTHROW OF VICTORIA.

1831.

was appointed March 8, 1830, to succeed José Maria Echeandía as gefe politico of Alta California, and three days later official notice was sent to the incumbent. Victoria was then at Loreto, where for several years he had been comandante principal of Lower California; but nothing is known of his career on the peninsula, nor of his previous life beyond the current and probably accurate belief in California that he was a native of Acapulco, and commandant there in 1825, who had won his rank by personal bravery in the war of independence. Antonio Garcia had previously been