Author: Bernardo de GálvezPublisher:
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Category : Pensacola (Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Diary of Governor Bernardo de Galvez During His Expedition Against Pensacola 1781
Author: Bernardo de GálvezPublisher:
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Category : Pensacola (Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
The Siege of Pensacola, 1781
Author: James Albert ServiesPublisher:
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Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
I Alone
Author: Carmen de ReparazPublisher: Ediciones de Cultura Hispanica
ISBN: 9788472326576
Category : Pensacola (Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The diary of Francisco de Miranda
Author: Francisco de MirandaPublisher:
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Category : Diaries
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Tribute to Don Bernardo de Gálvez
Author: Ralph Lee WoodwardPublisher:
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Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Bernardo de Gálvez
Author: Gonzalo M. Quintero SaraviaPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469640805
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
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.
Descriptive Catalogue of the Documents Relating to the History of the United States in the Papeles Procedentes de Cuba Deposited in the Archivo General de Indias at Seville
Author: Roscoe R. HillPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Spain's Final Triumph Over Great Britain in the Gulf of Mexico
Author: Nixon Orwin RushPublisher:
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Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy
Author: Daniel H. Usner Jr.Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807839965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In this pioneering book Daniel Usner examines the economic and cultural interactions among the Indians, Europeans, and African slaves of colonial Louisiana, including the province of West Florida. Rather than focusing on a single cultural group or on a particular economic activity, this study traces the complex social linkages among Indian villages, colonial plantations, hunting camps, military outposts, and port towns across a large region of pre-cotton South. Usner begins by providing a chronological overview of events from French settlement of the area in 1699 to Spanish acquisition of West Florida after the Revolution. He then shows how early confrontations and transactions shaped the formation of Louisiana into a distinct colonial region with a social system based on mutual needs of subsistence. Usner's focus on commerce allows him to illuminate the motives in the contest for empire among the French, English, and Spanish, as well as to trace the personal networks of communication and exchange that existed among the territory's inhabitants. By revealing the economic and social world of early Louisianians, he lays the groundwork for a better understanding of later Southern society.
Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift
Author: Thomas E. ChávezPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826327958
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
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.