Battle of Pensacola (1781)
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| Part of the Gulf Coast campaign | |||||||||
 Spanish grenadiers and militia pour into Fort George. Oil on canvas, United States Army Center of Military History. |
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 Spain France
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Bernardo de Gálvez Francisco de Miranda José Calvo de Irazabal José Solano y Bote Juan Manuel de Cagigal François Aymar de Monteil |
 John Campbell
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| Strength | |||||||||
| 7,400 regulars and militia 10,000 sailors & marines 21 ships |
1,300 militia, natives & regulars 500 Indians |
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 94 dead 202 wounded |
102 dead 105 wounded 1,113 captured 2 sloops captured |
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The Siege of Pensacola was a siege fought in 1781, the culmination of Spain's conquest of the British province West Florida during the American Revolutionary War.
When Spain entered the War in 1779, Bernardo de Gálvez, the energetic governor of Spanish Louisiana, immediately began offensive operations to gain control of British West Florida. In September 1779 he gained complete control over the lower Mississippi River by capturing Fort Bute and then shortly thereafter obtaining the surrender of the remaining forces following the Battle of Baton Rouge. He followed up these successes with the capture of Mobile on March 14, 1780, after a brief siege.
Gálvez began planning an assault on Pensacola, West Florida's capital, using forces from Havana, with the recently captured Mobile as the launching point for the attack. British reinforcements arriving in Pensacola in April 1780 delayed the expedition, however, and when an invasion fleet finally sailed in October, it was dispersed by a hurricane a few days later. Gálvez spent nearly a month regrouping the fleet at Havana.
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