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The United States’ founding leaders recognized Galvez as an ally, though with less effusive praise than they bestowed on foreign volunteers such as Lafayette or Tadeusz Kosciuszko.
Bernardo Vicente de Gálvez y Madrid, 1st Count of Gálvez (23 July 1746 – 30 November 1786) was a Spanish military leader and government official who served as colonial governor of Spanish Louisiana and Cuba, and later as Viceroy of New Spain.
Sep 8, 2021 · Follow the process of recreating and the history behind the flags flown by 18th-century ships during the Revolutionary War as well as General George Washington's headquarters flag. Read an excerpt from Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia's book, Bernardo de Gálvez: Spanish Hero of the American Revolution.
Jun 1, 2019 · Finally, Gálvez's life provides an important window onto the administrative and legal culture of Spain's American empire as it entered its last phase prior to the start of Latin America's wars for independence.
- Brian Rouleau
- 2019
Bernardo de Gálvez (b. 25 July 1746; d. 30 November 1786), Spanish military officer, governor of Louisiana (1777–1783), and viceroy of New Spain (1785–1786), Gálvez was born at Macharavialla, near Málaga, to a family that held many important posts under the Spanish Bourbons.
Apr 14, 2015 · At age twenty-nine in 1776, Bernardo de Gálvez was appointed governor of Spanish Louisiana. (In 1762, nearing the end of the Seven Years' War, France ceded Louisiana to Spain in a secret treaty.)
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Aug 12, 2019 · Today, after nearly 20 years of dedicated effort, the portrait of Bernardo de Gálvez hangs in the Capitol building in America, and he is one of the eight people who have received the title of Honorary Citizen of the United States.
