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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 Battle of Gonzales was the first military engagement of the Texas Revolution. It was fought near Gonzales , Texas , on October 2, 1835, between rebellious Texian settlers and a detachment of Mexican army soldiers.
Battle of Baton Rouge (1862), Union victory in the American Civil War This page was last edited on 14 September 2016, at 13:13 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Company K left on furlough and never returned. The regiment fought at Baton Rouge before being assigned to garrison Port Hudson. On 4 March 1863, two companies were suppressed and their men reassigned to other companies, officially reducing the regiment to a 7-company unit named the 30th Louisiana Infantry Battalion. However, contemporary ...
The Siege of Vicksburg was abandoned on July 24, and the Regiment returned to Baton Rouge on July 26, with 100 of the 800 men who went up the river still fit for duty. [ 7 ] The Battle of Baton Rouge took place on Tuesday, August 5, 1862, a very foggy day.
1916 – Historical Society of East and West Baton Rouge established. [15] 1923 – Baton Rouge General Hospital active. [16] 1924 – Community Coffee in business. 1926 New Louisiana State University campus dedicated. [13] Baton Rouge High School and Arcade Theatre [17] built. Louisiana Municipal Association headquartered in Baton Rouge ...
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1957. Cashin, Edward J. William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. ISBN 1-57003-325-0. Chidsey, Donald Barr. The War in the South: the Carolinas and Georgia in the American Revolution, an Informal History. New York ...
Gálvez carried out a masterful military campaign and defeated the British colonial forces at Fort Bute, Baton Rouge, and Natchez in 1779. [50] [51] The Battle of Baton Rouge, on 21 September 1779, freed the lower Mississippi Valley of British forces and relieved the threat to the capital of Louisiana, New Orleans.