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- Bernardo de Gálvez: Spanish Hero of the American Revolution
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
summary
Although Spain was never a formal ally of the United States during 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 America, their military campaigns against British settlements on the Mississippi River—and later against Mobile and Pensacola—were crucial in preventing Britain from concentrating all its North American military and naval forces on the fight against George Washington's Continental army. In this first comprehensive biography of Galvez (1746@–86), Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia assesses the commander's considerable historical impact 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 was 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 for the duration of the Spanish presence in North America. 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 America and offers a reinterpretation of the international factors involved in the American War for Independence.
A man of both empire and the Enlightenment, as viceroy of New Spain (1785@–86), Galvez was 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 for the duration of the Spanish presence in North America. 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 America and offers a reinterpretation of the international factors involved in the American War for Independence.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 1-8
- 1. Early Years
- pp. 9-20
- 2. New Spain: Fighting the Apache
- pp. 21-61
- 5. Bernardo de Gálvez Takes the Initiative
- pp. 137-179
- 6. His Finest Hour: Pensacola, “I Alone”
- pp. 180-244
- 8. Viceroy of New Spain
- pp. 281-339
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 383-386
- Bibliography
- pp. 499-584
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469640815
Related ISBN(s)
9781469640792, 9781469640808, 9798890853882
MARC Record
OCLC
1029828120
Pages
616
Launched on MUSE
2018-03-31
Language
English
Open Access
No