Capture of Fort Bute
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The capture of Fort Bute, also known as the Battle of Manchac Post, signalled the opening of Spanish intervention in the American Revolutionary War on the side of France and the United States. Musteri
La Marcha de Gálvez by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau
Bernardo de Gálvez
Gulf Coast campaign
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The Gulf Coast campaign or the Spanish conquest of West Florida in the American Revolutionary War, was a series of military operations primarily directed by the governor of Spanish Louisiana, Bernardo
Capture of Fort Bute
…Capture of Fort Bute Part of the Gulf Coast campaign La Marcha de Gálvez by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau Date 7 September 1779 Location Fort Bute, West Florida (present-day East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana…
Spanish Troops at Pensacola, Florida by H. Charles McBarron Jr., showing the Louisiana Regiment (white coats) and the Company of Free Blacks of Havana (red coats) storming Fort George at Pensacola.