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GALVEZ, BERNARDO DE. Diario de las operaciones de la expedicion contra la Plaza de Panzacola concluida por las Armas de S. M. Católica, baxo las órdenes del Mariscal de Campo D. Bernardo de Galvez. [Madrid? after 12 May 1781]. 4to, nineteenth-century calf, rubbed, tail of spine chipped, quarter morocco two-part slipcase, first leaf browned, foxing. FIRST EDITION, caption title only as issued. Howes P59; Palau 96980 (ascribing to Havana); Sabin 26475; Streeter sale II, 1191.
Galvez's day-by-day account of his successful campaigns, as an ally of the American rebel forces, against the British in Florida. As captain-general of the Spanish colonies of Louisiana and the Floridas, Galvez had done all he could to support the Americans, in the two years preceding the war, and when war broke out he undertook a vigorous offensive against the British outposts in West Florida. In 1779 he took Baton Rouge, Manchac, and Natchez on the Mississippi, and in 1780 and 1781 Mobile and Pensacola on the Gulf. The conquest of Pensacola was accomplished against terrific odds, and definitively broke the British hold on West Florida, which was given to Spain by the peace settlement of 1783.
Provenance: G. Cusachs, bookplate.
Galvez's day-by-day account of his successful campaigns, as an ally of the American rebel forces, against the British in Florida. As captain-general of the Spanish colonies of Louisiana and the Floridas, Galvez had done all he could to support the Americans, in the two years preceding the war, and when war broke out he undertook a vigorous offensive against the British outposts in West Florida. In 1779 he took Baton Rouge, Manchac, and Natchez on the Mississippi, and in 1780 and 1781 Mobile and Pensacola on the Gulf. The conquest of Pensacola was accomplished against terrific odds, and definitively broke the British hold on West Florida, which was given to Spain by the peace settlement of 1783.
Provenance: G. Cusachs, bookplate.