Bernardo De Galvez: Hero of the American Revolution

by Lorenzo G. Lafarelle

STATED FIRST EDITION. 1992 Eakin Press hardcover, Lorenzo G. Lafarelle. The history of one of American's little known heroes. Two years into the Revolutionary War, as the Americans hunted for any advantage in their war for independence, they cultivated a daring young Spaniard as an the governor of Louisiana, Bernardo de Galvez. In April 1777, George Morgan, the commander at Pittsburgh’s Fort Pitt, sent a flotilla down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans carrying a letter to Galvez, offering to trade with Spain and asking for aid in case the Americans decided to attack the British in Florida. The American ships sailed back up the Mississippi River that August filled with ammunition, arms, and provisions. “I will extend…whatever assistance I can,” Galvez responded, “but it must appear that I am ignorant of it all.” -

92 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1992