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The Battle of Baton Rouge was a brief siege during the Anglo-Spanish War that was decided on September 21, 1779. Fort New Richmond (present-day Baton Rouge, Louisiana) was the second British outpost to fall to Spanish arms during Bernardo de Gálvez's march into West Florida.
The fort was captured on September 21, 1779, when Bernardo de Gálvez, the colonial Governor of Spanish Louisiana, after capturing Fort Bute led his force of approximately 1,000 men (reduced by the hardships of the march from New Orleans) [4] against Baton Rouge. [3]
September 16-October 18, 1779: Georgia: British victory Battle of Baton Rouge: September 20–21, 1779: West Florida: Patriot-Spanish victory Battle of Flamborough Head: September 23, 1779: Great Britain: Patriot victory Action of 6 October 1779: October 6, 1779 France French victory Battle of San Fernando de Omoa: October 16-November 29, 1779 ...
Battle of Baton Rouge (1779), Spanish victory in the American Revolutionary War Battle of Baton Rouge (1862) , Union victory in the American Civil War Topics referred to by the same term
On August 27, Gálvez set out by land toward Baton Rouge, leading a force that consisted of 520 regulars (about two-thirds of them recent recruits), 60 militiamen, 80 free blacks and mulattoes, and ten Anglo-American volunteers headed by Oliver Pollock. [4] As they marched upriver, the force grew by another 600 men, including Indians and Acadians.
1779 – September: Battle of Baton Rouge at Fort New Richmond, during the Gulf Coast campaign of the American Revolutionary War. 1783 – Period of Spanish West Florida officially begins; Baton Rouge fort has been renamed Fort San Carlos.
The Capture of Fort Bute signalled the opening of Spanish intervention in the American Revolutionary War on the side of France and the United States.Mustering an ad hoc army of Spanish regulars, Acadian militia, and native levies under Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent, Bernardo de Gálvez, the Governor of Spanish Louisiana stormed and captured the small British frontier post on Bayou Manchac on ...
Battle of Baton Rouge (1779) F. Battle of Fort Charlotte; G. Great Siege of Gibraltar; P. Siege of Pensacola; R. Invasion of Minorca (1781) S. San Juan Expedition (1780)