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American Revolution Podcast

ARP284 Pensacola

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

History, Education

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In the spring of 1781, the Spanish Army under Bernardo de Gálvez lays siege to the British at Fort George under General John Campbell. Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode. Book Recommendation of the Week: The Longest Siege of the American Revolution: Pensacola, by Wesley S Odom Online Recommendation of the Week: Farmar, Robert, Journal of the siege of Pensacola from the enemy's first appearing: March 9 to May 10, 1781. https://archive.org/details/journalofsiegeof00farm Join American Revolution Podcast on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmRevPodcast Ask your American Revolution Podcast questions on Quora: https://amrevpod.quora.com Join the Facebook group, American Revolution Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271 Follow the podcast on Twitter @AmRevPodcast Join the podcast mail list: https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy  ARP T-shirts and other merch: http://tee.pub/lic/AmRevPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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This week episode 284 the Battle of Pensacola.

1:04.4

Most of what I've been covering recently is the fighting through the South,

1:08.8

in Virginia, Georgia, the Carolinas.

1:11.6

This week I'm going to head a little further south. While the British and Americans

1:16.3

were fighting in the southern states, the British had another fight going on along the Gulf of Mexico.

1:25.2

We last focused on this region back in episode 229 when Spain first entered the war in 1779. Spanish General Bernardo de Galvez took Baton Rouge and forced out the British

1:36.5

out in what is today the state of Louisiana. Spain was not planning on a

1:42.4

defensive war. It wanted to capture more territory wherever possible.

1:48.2

After Galvez had secured the area around Baton Rouge, he prepared for new

1:53.1

offensives on British outposts in what is today Alabama.

1:57.3

Several months after his capture of Baton Rouge,

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