Bernardo De Galvez In Louisiana
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Author | : John Walton Caughey |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : History |
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Spanish colonial governor Bernardo de Galvez gained the respect and admiration of the citizens of both Louisiana and the newly formed United States for his vigorous, capable leadership and military action during the American Revolutionary War. This comprehensive study follows Galvez's career in Louisiana and the important role he played in the war, a role often left out of American history books.
Author | : Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 617 |
Release | : 2018-03-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1469640805 |
Although Spain was never a formal ally of the United States during the American Revolution, its entry into the war definitively tipped the balance against Britain. Led by Bernardo de Galvez, supreme commander of the Spanish forces in North America, their military campaigns against British settlements on the Mississippi River—and later against Mobile and Pensacola—were crucial in preventing Britain from concentrating all its North American military and naval forces on the fight against George Washington's Continental army. In this first comprehensive biography of Galvez (1746@–86), Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia assesses the commander's considerable historical impact and expands our understanding of Spain's contribution to the war. A man of both empire and the Enlightenment, as viceroy of New Spain (1785@–86), Galvez was also pivotal in the design and implementation of Spanish colonial reforms, which included the reorganization of Spain's Northern Frontier that brought peace to the region for the duration of the Spanish presence in North America. Extensively researched through Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. archives, Quintero Saravia's portrait of Galvez reveals him as central to the histories of the Revolution and late eighteenth-century America and offers a reinterpretation of the international factors involved in the American War for Independence.
Author | : John Walton Caughey |
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Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1972 |
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Author | : Thomas E. Chávez |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2002-04-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826327958 |
The role of Spain in the birth of the United States is a little known and little understood aspect of U.S. independence. Through actual fighting, provision of supplies, and money, Spain helped the young British colonies succeed in becoming an independent nation. Soldiers were recruited from all over the Spanish empire, from Spain itself and from throughout Spanish America. Many died fighting British soldiers and their allies in Central America, the Caribbean, along the Mississippi River from New Orleans to St. Louis and as far north as Michigan, along the Gulf Coast to Mobile and Pensacola, as well as in Europe. Based on primary research in the archives of Spain, this book is about United States history at its very inception, placing the war in its broadest international context. In short, the information in this book should provide a clearer understanding of the independence of the United States, correct a longstanding omission in its history, and enrich its patrimony. It will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Revolutionary War and in Spain's role in the development of the Americas.
Author | : James Walton Caughey |
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Release | : 1934 |
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Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Social sciences |
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Author | : Martha Schulhof |
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Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 1926 |
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Author | : Larrie D. Ferreiro |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101910305 |
Pulitzer Prize Finalist in History Winner of the Journal of the American Revolution 2016 Book of the Year Award At the time the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord the American colonists had little chance, if any, of militarily defeating the British. The nascent American nation had no navy, little in the way of artillery, and a militia bereft even of gunpowder. In his detailed accounts Larrie Ferreiro shows that without the extensive military and financial support of the French and Spanish, the American cause would never have succeeded. Ferreiro adds to the historical records the names of French and Spanish diplomats, merchants, soldiers, and sailors whose contribution is at last given recognition. Instead of viewing the American Revolution in isolation, Brothers at Arms reveals the birth of the American nation as the centerpiece of an international coalition fighting against a common enemy.
Author | : Guillermo Fesser |
Publisher | : Loqueleo |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-05-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781682921449 |
Bernardo de Galvez was a Spanish general who played a key role in the American Revolution. Without him, the patriots would not have won the war or at the very least, it would have taken them a much longer time to do so. That's a fact! His role was so important that on a wall of the Capitol the seat of the U.S. Congress there is a portrait of him, and he was even granted honorary United States citizenship by President Barack Obama not long ago. Would you like to get to know Galvez? Open this book and start reading!
Author | : C. Robert Churchill |
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Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : Generals |
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