The Spanish who was decisive in the independence of the USA

The Spanish forces led by Bernardo de Gálvez during the Battle of Pensacola (Florida), by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau (2015) WIKIPEDIA

Since the early spring of 1781, Spanish forces had been besieging Pensacola Plaza in British West Florida.

In May, after having repelled a fierce British counterattack against the Spanish outposts, General Bernardo de Gálvez confessed to his good friend Francisco de Saavedra his concern about the slow advance of His Catholic Majesty's forces.

Saavedra had been a classmate of Gálvez at the Royal Military School of Ávila and was in ...

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