Three times he took part in revolution against Mexico, in 1832-36-45, and the revolutionists won each time, but the successive governors they recognized alwayswould drop back into the old rut.There is little wonder that Vallejo at Sonoma found his grandiloquent titleburdensome, and occasionally asked to be relieved. And when the Bear Flag people did relieve him of further participancy in Mexican affairs, it was likely to him a relief indeed.
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo