Galveston, Texas
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Galveston is a resort city and port on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Texas. It encompasses 211.31 square miles on Galveston Island and Pelican Island. As of the 2020 census, the city had a popul
Galveston Texas Skyline
Elissa Sailing Ship
Galveston strand
Seawolf Park
Bernardo de Gálvez
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Bernardo Vicente de Gálvez y Madrid, 1st Count of Gálvez was a Spanish military leader and government official who served as colonial governor of Spanish Louisiana and Cuba, and later as Viceroy of Ne
Galveston, Texas
…sits on the northwestern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Galveston, or Galvez's town, was named after 18th-century Spanish military and political leader Bernardo de Gálvez, 1st Count of Gálvez (1746–1786). The first European settlements on Galveston Island were built around 1816 by French pirate Louis-Michel Aury to help…
Portrait by José Germán de Alfaro, 1785
Portrayed as viceroy of New Spain, c. 1785
Painting of Gálvez at the siege of Pensacola by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau
Resolution to Gov. Bernardo de Galvez Expressing Thanks for Efforts that Supported Independence Movement