La Bataille d' Eggmuhl 1809

Lewis & Clark To San Diego Via Europe

Jean Baptiste (Pomp) Charbonneau

The young American returned home and lived a full series of frontier adventures, including participating in expeditions with Jim Bridger and Pathfinder John C. Fremont. He later marched in the Mormon Battalion’s famous trek from the Great Salt Lake to San Diego during the Mexican War and fought with Stephen Kearney during his conquest of California. Following the war, he was named alcalde (mayor) of San Luis Rey. That town would later become Oceanside. He had a whole series of adventures subsequent to his mayoralty and before his passing 20 years later. However, our journey will end in Oceanside. Marshal Enterprises’ own Dennis Spors spent much of his youth in Oceanside visiting his grandmother, Esther Spors’, motel, literally one block from the Pacific Ocean. Nearly 60 years later, Marshal Enterprises would meet in an Oceanside timeshare, just across the street where Dennis would visit his grandmother. The purpose of Monte and Jim’s visit to that Oceanside timeshare in November of 2011 was to playtest ME’s latest game, La Bataille de Raszyn 1809. From Württemberg’s large Friedrich I; to Lewis & Clarke; to Sacajawea’s son; back to Württemberg; then back to the Mexican War and the Mormon Battalion; to Oceanside in 1848; to Oceanside in the 1950’s; to Oceanside in 2011; to finish off with Raszyn in 2024; the circle is complete.

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