re: Check in if your State helped win the Revolution

Yea, him and AH, little known fact:

Na Clooney is cool as frick.

Shut up Mizzou and go back to wrestling

Clooney sucks discarded foreskins.

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Are you really dickriding France RN. LSU fans, I swear.

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Just highlighting your own ignorance.

Hey, remember that time the country you're dickriding literally sold you off at scrap prices like a broken down Ford Escort?

I remember.

After they helped America win its independence? And then gave America it's biggest chunk of territory? Sure.

Yea and Spain also helped out but you don't see a bunch of Texans in here cancering up this thread.

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Louisiana in the Revolution Signers of Declaration of Independence: 0 Famous Leaders: 0 Important Battles: 0 Other noteworthy contributions to American cause: None

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Ughhhhh


Oliver Pollock an Irish immigrant but true Louisianian to the core.

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Pollock introduced Col. David Rogers and Capt. Robert Benham (politician) to the Governor. Rogers was delivering an important letter from Patrick Henry from Virginia. This meeting led to Spain joining the War against England.

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Pretty important, France gets a lot of historical credit but Spain helped in a huge way almost led entirely and financed by wealthy Spanish Louisianans.



Most important Louisianan was Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, just Galvez but the Madrid name was huge to his influence and helped Louisiana tremendously. Like Andrew Jackson, the Fighting Tigers under Robert E. Lee, Galvez was the first by

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He recruited Acadians (Cajuns), Creoles, free people of color, Isleños, German immigrants, and other Louisianans to join his army.

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Battles of Fort Manchac, New Orleans, Baton Rouge,Natchez, Pensacola and Mobile. His capture and winning all these key ports would be remembered in the Anaconda plan later. Galvez was also very instrumental in diverting British resources away from the lower colonies especially SC

But really I think this sums it up best on this 4th of July

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In the 18th and 19th century, the story of Gálvez was well known, and he was considered a war hero to the infantile country. In 1783, George Washington placed Gálvez to his right in a Fourth of July parade. The two corresponded until Gálvez’s death.

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Very proud to say every war this nation has been involved in, no matter the religion, color, or wealth Louisianans have always answered the call to protect freedom and fought together.

GBA

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Damn you

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Louisiana in the Revolution

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Are you really dickriding France RN. LSU fans, I swear.

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France?

No. France didn't own Louisiana during the Revolution.

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 de Gálvez against the British province of West Florida. Begun with operations against British positions on the Mississippi River shortly after Britain and Spain went to war in 1779, Gálvez completed the conquest of West Florida in 1781 with the successful siege of Pensacola.

The Capture of Fort Bute signalled the opening of Spanish intervention in the American Revolutionary War on the side of France and the United States. Mustering an ad hoc army of Spanish regulars, Acadian militia, and native levies under Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent, Bernardo de Gálvez, the Governor of Spanish Louisiana stormed and captured the small British frontier post on Bayou Manchac on September 7, 1779.

The Battle of Lake Pontchartrain was a single-ship action on September 10, 1779, part of the Anglo-Spanish War. It was fought between the British sloop-of-war HMS West Florida and the Continental Navy schooner USS Morris in the waters of Lake Pontchartrain, then in the British province of West Florida.

The West Florida was patrolling on Lake Pontchartrain when it encountered the Morris, which had set out from New Orleans with a Spanish and American crew headed by Continental Navy Captain William Pickles. The larger crew of the Morris successfully boarded the West Florida, inflicting a mortal wound on its captain, Lieutenant John Payne. The capture of the West Florida eliminated the major British naval presence on the lake, weakening already tenuous British control over the western reaches of West Florida.

The Battle of Baton Rouge was a brief siege during the Anglo-Spanish War that was decided on September 21, 1779. Baton Rouge was the second British outpost to fall to Spanish arms during Bernardo de Gálvez's march into British West Florida.

Capture of Fort Panmure. The British controlled the fort for less than two years. The fort capitulated to Bernardo de Galvez, the Governor of Spanish Luisiana and Commander of the troops of the Catholic Majesty without any resistance soon after the Battle of Baton Rouge. During the American Revolutionary War, Spain declared war against Great Britain and held control of the fort from 1779 to 1798. After 1798, the United States took over, establishing the Mississippi Territory with Natchez as its first territorial capital.

The Battle of Fort Charlotte or the Siege of Fort Charlotte was a two-week siege conducted by Spanish General Bernardo de Gálvez against the British fortifications guarding the port of Mobile (which was then in the British province of West Florida, and now in Alabama) during the Anglo-Spanish War of 1779-1783. Fort Charlotte was the last remaining British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana. Its fall drove the British from the western reaches of West Florida and reduced the British military presence in West Florida to its capital, Pensacola.

Gálvez's army sailed from New Orleans aboard a small fleet of transports on January 28, 1780. On February 25, the Spaniards landed near Fort Charlotte. The outnumbered British garrison resisted stubbornly until Spanish bombardment breached the walls. The garrison commander, Captain Elias Durnford, had waited in vain for relief from Pensacola, but was forced to surrender. Their capitulation secured the western shore of Mobile Bay and opened the way for Spanish operations against Pensacola.

The Siege of Pensacola was a siege fought in 1781, the culmination of Spain's conquest of the British province West Florida during the Gulf Coast campaign.

Gálvez personally accepted the surrender, ending British sovereignty in West Florida. The Spanish fleet left Pensacola for Havana on June 1 to prepare assaults on the remaining British possessions in the Caribbean. Gálvez appointed O'Neill the Spanish Governor of West Florida, and his Hibernia Regiment departed with the fleet.

Gálvez and his army were welcomed as heroes on their arrival in Havana on May 30. King Charles III promoted Gálvez to lieutenant general, and he was made governor of both West Florida and Louisiana. The royal commendation stated that as Gálvez alone forced the entrance to the Bay, he could place on his coat of arms the words Yo Solo.

José Solano y Bote was later recognized by King Charles III for coming to aid Gálvez with the title Marques del Socorro. A painting of Solano now hanging in the Museo Naval de Madrid shows him with Santa Rosa Bay in the background. A British flag captured at Pensacola is displayed at the Spanish Army Museum in Toledo.

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It was a brilliant campaign against the British by the Spanish governor of Louisiana.