He died there from a fever on November 30, Caughey, John Walton. Bernardo de Galvez in Louisiana, — Enter your email address Sign up.
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Read the Revolution. Read this excerpt from Claudio Saunt to learn about an ambitious, yet illegal under British law, land scheme to settle a fourteenth colony on the West Coast. He was aware that negotiations had begun in Europe between the American rebels and colonial powers, and hoped to claim everything he could for Spain before a finalized treaty marked the end of the war, disallowing further military strikes.
Following the end of the war, Bernardo returned to Spain to help direct Spanish foreign policy in Louisiana and Florida. From there he was briefly appointed the General Governor for Louisiana and Cuba, staying in Havana for a few months before returning once again to Louisiana.
In , Bernardo was appointed Viceroy of Mexico following the death of his father Matias, the previous Viceroy.
His third child with Marie Felice, named Guadalupe, was born only two months after his death. Bernardo was considered to be one of the finest military leaders in New Spain. His military campaigns kept British forces tied down in Florida that might otherwise have been deployed in the Southern States. For their Protection from the Indians, we are obliged to send and station among them, a considerable armed Force; the providing of which with cloathing, and the Friendly Indians with necessaries, becomes a matter of great Difficulty with us….
The first copies may have been printed at Pensacola by a small printing press that was usually carried by certain naval vessels. However, the exact printing date, and the whereabouts of the original manuscript is not known. For this purpose he embarked with his aids and left the harbor, showing thus that the same possibility that there was to enter, there was to leave; but the contrary winds and the currents there both forced him to return to the camp at eleven at night.
Dear Sir: The English in Havana made known with threats that the buildings and ships of the King or of individuals would not be destroyed, burned or sunk without the penalty of being treated with the greatest severity.
The same warning I give to you and the others against whom I compete, with the same conditions. In he was transferred to the faraway province of Louisiana and promoted to colonel of the Louisiana Regiment. On January 1, , he succeeded Luis de Unzaga as governor of Louisiana. George Gibson, and responded to their pleas by securing the port of New Orleans so that only American, Spanish, and French ships could move up and down the Mississippi River.
Over the river, a veritable lifeline, great amounts of arms, ammunition, military supplies, and money were delivered to the embattled American forces under George Washington and George Rogers Clark. He commanded more than 7, men in the two-month siege of Fort George in Pensacola before its capture on May 10, He was busy preparing for a grand campaign against Jamaica when peace negotiations ended the war.
In October he was recalled to America to serve as captain-general and governor of Cuba. Early in he was appointed viceroy of New Spain to succeed his father, who had died on November 3,
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