Spain and the American Revolutionary War information
18th-century war between UK and Spain
Anglo-Spanish War (1779–1783)
Part of the American Revolutionary War
Bernardo de Gálvez at the siege of Pensacola, painting by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau
Date
June 1779 – September 1783
Location
English Channel, Straits of Gibraltar, Balearic Islands, Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, The Bahamas, Central America, Louisiana, Alabama, Missouri, Illinois, Florida, Arkansas
Result
Spanish victory
Treaty of Versailles
Territorial changes
East Florida, West Florida, and Minorca ceded to Spain
Belligerents
Spanish Empire
British Empire
Commanders and leaders
Bernardo de Gálvez, Matías de Gálvez, Luis de Córdova y Córdova, Juan de Lángara
George Brydges Rodney, Richard Howe, George Augustus Eliott, John Campbell
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Battles involving Spain in the American Revolutionary War 1779–1783
Europe and Atlantic
English Channel
Plymouth
Gibraltar
Azores
Lisbon
20 November
Cape Finisterre
St. Vincent
Cape St. Maria
25 February
Málaga
1 May
Minorca
Strait of Gibraltar
Cape Spartel
Gulf Coast
Fort Bute
Lake Pontchartrain
Baton Rouge
1st Mobile
The Village
Pensacola
Louisiana and Northwest Territory
St. Louis
Fort St. Joseph
Arkansas Post
Central America
Río Hondo
Cayo Cocina
San Fernando
12 December
Fort San Juan
Roatán
Black River
West Indies
15 January
1st Nassau
17 February
2nd Nassau
Spain, through its alliance with France and as part of its conflict with Britain, played a role in the independence of the United States. Spain declared war on Britain as an ally of France, itself an ally of the American colonies. Most notably, Spanish forces attacked British positions in the south and captured West Florida from Britain in the siege of Pensacola. This secured the southern route for supplies and closed off the possibility of any British offensive through the western frontier of the United States via the Mississippi River. Spain also provided money, supplies, and munitions to the American forces.
Beginning in 1776, it jointly funded Roderigue Hortalez and Company, a trading company that provided critical military supplies. Spain provided financing for the final siege of Yorktown in 1781 with a collection of gold and silver in Havana, then Spanish Cuba.[1] Spain was allied with France through the Bourbon Family Compact and the Revolution was an opportunity to confront their common enemy, Great Britain. As the newly appointed Chief Minister of King Charles III of Spain, the Count of Floridablanca wrote in March 1777, "the fate of the colonies interests us very much, and we shall do for them everything that circumstances permit".[2]
^Thomas E. Chavez (January 2004). Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift. UNM Press. p. 225. ISBN 978-0-8263-2794-9.
^Fernández y Fernández, p. 4
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