General Bernardo de Galvez 1980 SILK FDC

#1826 General Bernardo de Galvez 15c 1980 Silk First Day Cover
Silk Cachet by Western - New Orleans, Louisiana Cancel - UNaddressed

In the early years of the Revolution, Galvez provided aid to the American cause by allowing tons of supplies to be shipped up the Mississippi to patriot forces in the north. With Spain's official entry into the war in 1779, Galvez raised a patchwork army of Creoles, Indians, free African Americans and his own Spanish regulars and marched on British-held forts at Baton Rouge and Natchez. A year later, he engaged the British at Mobile, and a year after that at Pensacola, in western Florida. In each case, Galvez was able to force the British from their entrenchments.