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
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.
Painting depicting the Spanish advance at the lower Mississippi by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau
Battle of Baton Rouge (1779)
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The Battle of Baton Rouge was a brief siege during the Anglo-Spanish War that was decided on September 21, 1779. Fort New Richmond was the second British outpost to fall to Spanish arms during Bernard
Gulf Coast campaign
…found Fort New Richmond garrisoned by over 400 regular army troops and 150 militia, under the overall command of Lt. Colonel Alexander Dickson. After nine days' siege, Dickson surrendered. Gálvez demanded and was granted terms that included the capitulation of the 80 Elite Grenadiers from the newly arrived 60th…
Bernardo de Gálvez
Daughters of the American Revolution commemorative marker