Combat· American Revolutionary War
Galvez's Gulf Coast Campaign
Bernardo de Gálvez's Spanish offensive against British West Florida opened a new front in the Revolution and cleared the British from the lower Mississippi and the Gulf coast.
American Marines and privateersmen, building on the earlier Willing expedition, took part in the operations that rolled up the British posts at Manchac, Baton Rouge, and Natchez, and later Mobile and Pensacola. The most concrete Marine action came on Lake Pontchartrain, where Captain William Pickles captured the British sloop West Florida in September 1779 and then landed Marines under Lieutenant Daniel Longstreet to seize Loyalist settlements on the lake's north shore. The campaign was one of the deepest American involvements in coalition warfare during the Revolution, fought far from the Atlantic seaboard alongside Spanish forces who had entered the war as co-belligerents.
Engagements in this conflict (2) Podcast episodes on American Revolutionary War
Record no. 169