How did Bernardo de Galvez help the Patriot cause?

Answer 1

He was the governor of Spanish Louisiana, favored the patriots. He secretly supplied medicine, cloths, muskets, and gun powder to the Americans. When Spain entered the war against Britain in 1779, he took a more active roll. He seized British forts along the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. He also drove the British out of West Florida.

Answer 2

Bernardo De Galvez was a Spanish military leader an a colonial administrator in North America. He helped America's 13 states in their revolutionary war against British. He himself defeated British at The Siege of Pensacola in 1781. His efforts were lauded by no less than George Washington himself who took him to his right during the parade on 4th of July. City of Galveston, Texas is named in his honor.

Answer 3

When the British Navy blockaded the Atlantic Ports preventing the United States from receiving guns and ammunition, Bernardo de Galvez aided the American cause by shipping guns and ammunition up the Mississippi River to the American Army. (Keel boats could go almost to Asheville, North Carolina and Bristol, Virginia. They could go beyond Pittsburg, Pennsylvania for miles into Western New York and South into West Virginia.

Answer 4

In 1777 Bernardo de Galvez became governor of Spanish Louisiana he opened up the port of New Orleans and ended British trade with Louisiana.

Answer 5

Bernardo de Galvez helped the Patroits by sending muskets and goods such as gunpowder, medicine, cloth