USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Louisiana was in Spanish territory and its governor was a young nobleman named, Bernardo de Galvez. In the early years of the Revolution, Galvez provided aid to the American cause by allowing tons of supplies to be shipped up the Mississippi to patriot forces in the north.

Detailed explanation-3: -Bernardo de Gálvez was governor of the Spanish territory of Louisiana during the American Revolution. He organized and won many attacks against the British. His victories kept the British from attacking Americans from the south and west.

Detailed explanation-4: -Gálvez is best remembered for his role in denying the British the ability to encircle the American rebels from the south by pressing British forces in West Florida and for keeping a vital flow of supplies to Patriot troops across the colonies.

Detailed explanation-5: -Bernardo de Gálvez (1746-1786) was the governor of the Spanish province of Louisiana during the American Revolution and supporting the American colonies’ fight for independence. Gálvez provided supplies to the American colonists and forced the British out of west Florida.