spanish: american revolution soldiers

[desertmoons]

Ran across this - thought it interesting. I had not known that the Spanish had provided guns, supplies and even soldiers during the revolutionary war!

THE CAMPAIGNS OF BERNARDO DE GALVEZ

Galvez marched out of New Orleans at the head of 170 veteran regulars drawn from the Regiments of Spain, Mallorca, Havana and Prince, 330 untested recruits from his own Regiment of Louisiana, twenty carabiniers, sixty white militiamen, eighty free blacks and mulattoes, and seven American volunteers. As they tramped along the Mississippi shore, they were accompanied by a flotilla of flatboats bearing four 4-pounders, one 24-pounder, and five 78-pounders. Forging on ahead, Galvez mustered 600 additional men from the Acadian and German settlements and 160 Indians, bringing his hodgepodge force up to a grand total of 1,427 men-at-arms.

Full story here. Hope it gives you Louisiana folks some good ideas!

http://magweb.n1uro.com/sample/amr/ed82loui.htm

 

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