Combat· American Revolutionary War
Galvez's Gulf Coast Campaign
Beginning in August 1779, Governor Bernardo de Galvez of Spanish Louisiana attacked the British posts of West Florida on the lower Mississippi and the Gulf coast.
Manchac was captured on September 7 and Baton Rouge on September 21, 1779, and the British fort at Natchez fell with Baton Rouge. Continental Marines served on the water. Galvez transferred an armed schooner to Oliver Pollock, and under Captain William Pickles she captured the British armed sloop West Florida on Lake Pontchartrain on September 10, 1779. Pickles lost three men and had five wounded, two of whom later died. On September 21, Marine Lieutenant Daniel Longstreet landed with seamen and Marines and took possession of British settlements on the lake's north shore. In March 1780 the West Florida sailed with the Spanish forces against Mobile, where Fort Charlotte capitulated on March 17, and she captured a small sloop. The settlers' articles of capitulation were later submitted by Pollock and by Congress in support of United States claims to West Florida.
Engagements in this conflict (2)
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