Bernado Galvez The Great by Terrion Moore https://padlet.com/tm235713/cxjyrru6qaao Bernardo the great also bacon bites en-us 2018-01-09 18:57:03 UTC 2025-10-26 00:11:31 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Ninja.png tm235713 https://padlet.com/tm235713/cxjyrru6qaao/wish/219921299 After entering the American Revolutionary War on the colonies’ side in 1779, Spain drew off British forces to the south, then crushed them, first in Louisiana and Alabama, and finally with a combined naval and land assault at the Battle of Pensacola in 1781. (Nicolas Ponce/Library of Congress]]> 2018-01-09 19:09:50 UTC https://padlet.com/tm235713/cxjyrru6qaao/wish/219921299 tm235713 https://padlet.com/tm235713/cxjyrru6qaao/wish/219922851 over the next two years, Gálvez would lead thousands of Spanish soldiers and scores of ships against the British in what would prove to be the last combat theater of the Revolution. Enduring hurricanes, disease, and difficult, swampy terrain, he and his soldiers forced the British to divert scarce resources and played a little-known but crucial role in pressuring Great Britain to negotiate for peace after seven grueling years of war.]]> 2018-01-09 19:12:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tm235713/cxjyrru6qaao/wish/219922851 tm235713 https://padlet.com/tm235713/cxjyrru6qaao/wish/219924413
]]> 2018-01-09 19:14:42 UTC https://padlet.com/tm235713/cxjyrru6qaao/wish/219924413 tm235713 https://padlet.com/tm235713/cxjyrru6qaao/wish/219926964 Gálvez’s first assignment in America came on New Year’s Day in 1777, when King Carlos appointed him acting governor of the Spanish city of New Orleans. (France had ceded Louisiana to Spain in 1762.) Among his biggest tasks: managing a smuggling operation authorized by the king to supply the Continental Army. Spain backed the colonists because it feared Great Britain was becoming far too powerful; the British still occupied Gibraltar on the Spanish coast and since 1764 had held the former Spanish territories in Florida, exchanged after the British captured Havana in the French and Indian War. The rebellion in North America gave Spain a strategic opportunity to protect its interests, regain its territory, and disrupt British global power.]]> 2018-01-09 19:18:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tm235713/cxjyrru6qaao/wish/219926964 tm235713 https://padlet.com/tm235713/cxjyrru6qaao/wish/219927550
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]]> 2018-01-09 19:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/tm235713/cxjyrru6qaao/wish/219927950 tm235713 https://padlet.com/tm235713/cxjyrru6qaao/wish/219928771 But Gálvez first had to secure Louisiana by taking Forts Panmure and Bute. (Baker Vail)
It was up to Gálvez to keep that line open—not an easy task, since New Orleans was rife with British spies. But Gálvez was resourceful. Often working through brokers, he artfully arranged purchases of materiel, always carefully concealing the king’s involvement in the operation. Gálvez also created a valuable partnership with Oliver Pollock, a wealthy Irish-American patriot who risked his personal fortune to aid the Revolution. Together, the two managed to slip many critical shipments past the British watchdogs and into the hands of the colonists.
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