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So what if the British did in the early 1840s take California? How does that affect the US when the War of 1848 comes around? Does it affect the negotiations over Columbia/Oregon?
The British minister in Mexico, Richard Pakenham, wrote in 1841 to Lord Palmerston urging "to establish an English population in the magnificent Territory of Upper California", saying that "no part of the World offering greater natural advantages for the establishment of an English colony ... by all means desirable ... that California, once ceasing to belong to Mexico, should not fall into the hands of any power but England ... daring and adventurous speculators in the United States have already turned their thoughts in this direction." But by the time the letter reached London, Sir Robert Peel's Tory government with a Little England policy had come to power and rejected the proposal as expensive and a potential source of conflict.[14][15]
Surprisingly, a significant number of influential Californios were in favor of annexation, either by the United States or by Great Britain. Pío de Jesús Pico IV, the last governor of Alta California, was in favor of British annexation. [16]
So what if the British did in the early 1840s take California? How does that affect the US when the War of 1848 comes around? Does it affect the negotiations over Columbia/Oregon?