Richard Stockton

Richard Stockton was an army officer in the armed forces of the United States of Mexico.

Stockton was the general commanding Mexican forces on the Pacific Coast in 1898 during the outbreak of the Great Northern War between Mexico and Russia. In June 1898, as a mixed force of California Guard militia and marines entered Russian Alaska from the south, 40,000 Mexican Army troops under Stockton made an amphibious landing to their north and joined forces with them. Stockton's army continued to advance north while Admiral Ephraim Small landed additional marines at the Alaskan capital of Nikolaevsk on 5 July. Between them, Admiral Small's marines and General Stockton's soldiers trapped the Russian army of General Mikhail Kornilov in August, who surrendered to Stockton.

With Kornilov's army gone, Stockton's men were free to advance inland to the Yukon gold fields, accompanied by engineering teams from Kramer Associates. Stockton's soldiers kept order while the teams from K.A. began mining operations.

Sobel's source for General Stockton's actions during the Great Northern War is Carl Needham's The Great Northern War (New York, 1963).