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He helped neither but he supported the Americans
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As a Spanish military leader Bernardo de Galvez led Spanish forces in the fight against the British when the American colonies were fighting for their independence. His assistance is best noted during the Siege of Pensacola in Florida in 1781.
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When the Revolutionary War began, Bernardo de Galvez was the governor of Louisiana, a Spanish colony at the time. His contribution to American success was preventing the British from utilizing the Mississippi River.
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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.
Galvez gathered small groups of Spanish soldiers, French Americans, colonists, and Native Americans and became a key ally to the patriots.
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he helped the Americans