Bernardo de Gálvez: Spanish Hero of the American Revolution

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Even though Spain used to be never a formal ally of the USA all over 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 The united states, their military campaigns against British settlements at the Mississippi River—and later against Mobile and Pensacola—were an important in preventing Britain from concentrating all its North American military and naval forces at the fight against George Washington’s Continental army. On this first comprehensive biography of Galvez (1746@–86), Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia assesses the commander’s considerable historical have an effect on 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 used to be 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 at some point of the Spanish presence in North The united states. 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 The united states and offers a reinterpretation of the international factors involved in the American War for Independence.

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