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The siege of Gibraltar, June 16, 1779, to February 7, 1783, was the longest-lasting Spanish action in the war. Despite the larger size of the besieging Franco-Spanish army, at one point numbering 33,000, the British under George Augustus Elliott were able to hold out in the fortress and were resupplied by sea three times.
July–September. September 16–October 18: Siege of Savannah: American attack on Savannah. July 16 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Stony Point, United States forces led by General Anthony Wayne capture Stony Point, New York from British troops. July 22 – Battle of Minisink: The Goshen Militia is destroyed by Joseph Brant 's forces.
1779: Spanish settlers, led by Francisco Bouligny, founded New Iberia along Bayou Teche. 1779: Spain declared war on Britain during the American Revolutionary War. 1780: The Battle of St. Louis was won by Spain. 1781: Spain completed its reconquest of Florida. 1783: The Treaty of Paris officially returned Florida to Spanish control.
Spain. Great Britain. 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.
Part of the Gulf Coast Campaign of the American Revolutionary War. Spanish Troops at Pensacola, Florida by H. Charles McBarron shows a grenadier officer of the Louisiana regiment urging his troops to the assault at Pensacola. Date. March 9 – May 10, 1781.
v. t. e. The Great Siege of Gibraltar was an unsuccessful attempt by Spain and France to capture Gibraltar from the British during the American Revolutionary War. [ 17 ] It was the largest battle in the war by number of combatants. [ 18 ] On 16 June 1779, Spain entered the war on the side of France and as co-belligerents of the revolutionary ...
Bernardo Vicente de Gálvez y Madrid, 1st Count of Gálvez (23 July 1746 – 30 November 1786) was a Spanish military leader and government official who served as colonial governor of Spanish Louisiana and Cuba, and later as Viceroy of New Spain. A career soldier since the age of 16, Gálvez was a veteran of several wars across Europe, the ...
The 1779 Sullivan Expedition (also known as the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition, the Sullivan Campaign, and the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign) was a United States military campaign during the American Revolutionary War, lasting from June to October 1779, against the four British -allied nations of the Iroquois (also known as the Haudenosaunee).