"AWI: British campaigns against Spanish in C. America" Topic

Looking for any information. Read a one liner in The American Provincial Corps, about the Loyal American Rangers allied with Mesquite Indians and ex-Slaves attacking the Spanish in Honduras.

Thanks,
Andrew

I included a section of the actions in my Book 'The Spanish Army in the American Revolution.

A lot of patriot prisoners, mostly from SC enlisted to fight the Spanish and died in the campaign due to disease rather than combat. I thin kthe Regiment was called the Duke of Orange Regiment but i will verify that.

Hey Rudy:

Where can we buy your books. I've looked on Time Portal Passages and not seen them.

Getting books published by anyone is a lot longer process than I thought. Some companies have as many as four levels of editorial staff committee reviews. Subject: Content text/Pictures: Writing tyle, Economics, etc.

The article on the Spanish is in that TPP magazine.

Got a bibliography we can look at?

Thanks,
Andrew

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

This is a selected bibliography as I have listed mainly sources that are both in English and available to the reader who wants to do additional research. Many college dissertations and Spanish documents have not been listed due to the difficulty in the average researcher being able to obtain them. The list was further edited due to space requirements.

Archer, Christen I. ‘The Army in Bourbon Mexico, 1760-1810'. Albuquerque. University of New Mexico Press, 1977.

Barrs, Burton. East Florida in the American Revolution. Jacksonville: Guild Press, 1932.

Bolton, Herbert E. The Spanish Borderlands: A Chronicle of Old Florida and the Southwest. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1921.

Caughey, John Walton, ‘Bernardo de Gálvez in Louisiana 1776-1783'. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1934.

Coker, William S., and Hazel P. The Siege of Mobile, 1780, in Maps. Pensacola: Perdido Bay, 1982.

Gold, Robert L. "Governor Bernardo de Gálvez and Spanish Espionage in Pensacola, 1777." In John F. McDermott, editor, The Spanish in the Mississippi Valley 1762-1784 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1974), pp. 87-99.

Haynes, Robert V. The Natchez District and the American Revolution. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1976.

-----. "James Willing and the Planters of Natchez: The American Revolution Comes to the Southwest." Journal of Mississippi History, 37 (February 1975), pp. 1-40.

Holmes, Jack D. L. "Robert Ross' Plan for an English Invasion of Louisiana in 1782." Louisiana History, 5 (Spring 1964), pp. 161-177.

Holmes, Jack. ‘Honor & Fidelity': The Louisiana Regiment 1766-1821, Holmes Publishing, Birmingham , Alabama, 1965.

Johnson, Cecil. British West Florida. 1763-1783. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1943.

Kuethe, Allan J. ‘Military Reform & Society in New Granada, 1773-1808'. Gainesville: The University Presses of Florida, 1978.

Lang, James.'Conquest and Commerce Spain and England in the Americas'. New York: Academic Press, 1975.

Langley, Lester D. ‘Struggle for the American Mediterranean, United States-European Rivalry in the Gulf-Caribbean, 1776-1904'. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1969.

McDermott, John Francis, ed. ‘The Spanish in the Mississippi Valley 1762-1804'. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1974.

Mowat, Charles L. East Florida as a British Province, 1763-1784. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943.

Primm, James N. "Lion of the Valley: St. Louis", 1981; Pruett Publishing Co., Boulder, CO.

Proctor, Samuel, editor. Eighteenth-Century Florida and the Revolutionary South. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1978.

Rush, N. Orwin. The Battle of Pensacola March 9 to May 8, 1781: Spain's Final Triumph Over Great Britain in the Gulf of Mexico. Tallahassee: Florida State University, 1966.

Searcy, Martha Condray. The Georgia-Florida Contest in the American Revolution 1776-1778. University: University of Alabama Press, 1986.

Starr, J. Barton. "Tories, Dons and Revels: The American Revolution in British West Florida.", University of Florida , Gainesville, Fl., 1976.

Thomson, B. Parker. ‘Spain: Forgotten Ally of the American Revolution'. North Quincy, Massachusetts: The Christopher Publishing House, 1976.

Whitaker, Arthur Preston, ‘The Spanish-American Frontier: 1783-1795': The Westward Movement and the Spanish Retreat in the Mississippi Valley. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1969.

Wright, J. Leitch, Jr. ‘Anglo-Spanish Rivalry in North America'. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1971.

Wright, J. Leitch, Jr. ‘Florida in the American Revolution". Gainesville: The University Presses of Florida, 1975.

Magazine and Journal Sources
The best source to obtain these articles is to get them through the Inter-library loan program from your local library.

Abbey, Kathryn T. "Peter Chester's Defense of the Mississippi After the Willing Raid." Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 22 (June 1935), pp. 17-32.

Beer, William. "The Capture of Fort Charlotte, Mobile." Publications of the Louisiana Historical Society, 1 (1896), pp. 31-34.

Beerman, Eric. "José de Ezpeleta: Alabama's First Spanish Commandant During the American Revolution." Alabama Review, 29 (October 1976), pp. 249-260.

Boyd, Mark F., and José Navarro Latorre. "Spanish Interest in British Florida, and in the Progress of the American Revolution." Florida Historical Quarterly, 32 (October 1953), pp. 92-130.

Buker, George E., and Richard Apley Martin. "Governor Tonyn's Brown-Water Navy: East Florida During the American Revolution, 1775-1778" Florida Historical Quarterly, 58 (July 1979), pp. 58-71.

Bullen, Ripley P. "Fort Tonyn and the Campaign of 1778." Florida Historical Quarterly, 29 (April 1951), pp. 253-260.

Caughey, John. "The Natchez Rebellion of 1781 and Its Aftermath." Louisiana Historical Quarterly, 16 (January 1933), pp. 57-83.

Coker, William S., and Robert R. Rea, editors. Anglo-Spanish Confrontation on the Gulf Coast during the American Revolution. Pensacola: Gulf Coast History and Humanities Conference, 1982. Though not quite a Journal, I included this since Dr. Rea was one of my instructors at Auburn.

Conover, Bettie James. "British West Florida's Mississippi Frontier Posts, 1763-1779." Alabama Review, 29 (July 1976), pp. 177-207.

Cubberly, Fred. "Fort George (St. Michael), Pensacola." Florida Historical Quarterly, 6 (October 1928), pp. 220-234.

Dart, Henry P., editor. "West Florida--The Capture of Baton Rouge by Gálvez, September 21, 1779, From Reports of the English Officers." Louisiana Historical Quarterly, 12 (April 1929), pp. 255-265.

DeVoe Tomas E. and Urwin Gregory. El Dorado magazine; ‘The Regiment of Louisiana and the Spanish Army in the American Revolution'.

Din, Gilbert C. "Protecting the 'Barrera': Spain's Defenses in Louisiana, 1763-1779." Louisiana History, 19 (Spring 1978), pp. 183-211.

Farmar, Robert. "Bernardo de Galvez's Siege of Pensacola in 1781 (As Related in Robert Farmar's Journal)." Edited by James A. Padgett. Louisiana Historical Quarterly, 26 (April 1943), pp. 311-329.

Faye, Stanley. "British and Spanish Fortifications of Pensacola, 1781-1821." Florida Historical Quarterly, 20 (January 1942), pp. 277-292.

-----. "The Arkansas Post of Louisiana: Spanish Domination." Louisiana Historical Quarterly, 27 (July 1944), pp. 629-716.

Gálvez, Bernardo de. "Bernardo de Gálvez's Combat Diary for the Battle of Pensacola, 1781." Edited by Maury Baker and Margaret Bissler Haas. Florida Historical Quarterly, 56 (October 1977), pp. 176-199.

-----. "Diary of the Operations Against Pensacola." Translated by Gaspar de Cusachs. Louisiana Historical Quarterly, 1 (January 1917), pp. 44-84.

Griffith, Lucille. "Peter Chester and the End of the British Empire in West Florida." Alabama Review, 30 (January 1977), pp. 14-33.

Haarmann, Albert W. "The Spanish Conquest of British West Florida, 1779-1781." Florida Historical Quarterly, 39 (October 1960), pp. 107-134.

-----. "The Siege of Pensacola: An Order of Battle." Florida Historical Quarterly, 44 (January 1966), pp. 193-199.

Holmes, Jack. "Jose de Evia and His Activities in Mobile, 1780-1784." Alabama Historical Quarterly, 34 (Summer 1972), pp. 105-112.

----. "Juan de la Villebeuvre: Spain's Commandant of Natchez During the American Revolution." Journal of Mississippi History, 37 (February 1975), pp. 97-129.

----. "Alabama's Bloodiest Day of the American Revolution: Counterattack at The Village, January 7, 1781." Alabama Review, 29 (July 1976), pp. 208-219.

Howard, Clinton N. "Colonial Pensacola: The British Period." Florida Historical Quarterly, 19 (October 1940; January, April 1941), pp. 109-127, 246-269, 368-401.

James, James Alton. "Spanish Influence in the West During the American Revolution." Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 4 (September 1917), pp. 193-208.

Jenkins, William H. "Alabama Forts, 1700-1838." Alabama Review, 12 (July 1959), pp. 163-179.

Katcher, Rebecca, and Philip. "Pensacola Garrison, 1779-1781." Military Collector and Historian, 33 (Spring 1981), pp. 22-23.

Lackey, Robert J., editor. "The Siege of Pensacola in 1781." Historical Magazine, 4 (June 1976), pp. 166-172.

Nachbin, Jac, editor. "Spain's Report on the War with the British in Louisiana." Louisiana Historical Quarterly, 15 (July 1932), pp. 468-481.

Osborn, George C. "Major General John Campbell in British West Florida." Florida Historical Quarterly, 27 (April 1949), pp. 317-339.

Smith, W. Calvin. "Mermaids Riding Alligators: Divided Command on the Southern Frontier, 1776-1778." Florida Historical Quarterly, 54 (April 1976), pp. 443-464.

Worcester, Donald E., translator. "Miranda's Diary of the Siege of Pensacola, 1781." Florida Historical Quarterly, 29 (January 1951), pp. 163-196.

In the spring of 1780 the British decided to try their luck again against the Castle of the Immaculate Conception. The castle dominated the region. The strategic objective this time was to consolidate their control over Lake Nicaragua with future plans of building a canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

The British army sailed from bases in Jamaica, Honduras and the Moskito Coast. The expedition commanded by Captain John Polson numbered slightly over 3,000 land troops. The units included 2,500 veteran troops with 80 local volunteers from Bluefield and 400 warriors from the Central American tribes called Zambos and Muskitos. Many of the British veteran troops were Loyalist units composed of South Carolina ex-Patriot POWs captured at Charleston. They had been paroled under condition of joining the British Army as long as they would be transferred to fight Spanish troops and not used in any campaign against Patriot forces.

RudyNelson, how interesting!

I gather your book "The Spanish Army in the American Revolution" is not in print. I'd be very interested in acquiring it.

Oh, and thanks for the bibliography.

as would I

Make that 3!

Thanks for the bibliography.

The Florida Historical Quarterly is available free full-text online at:

palmm.fcla.edu/FHQ

Andrew

I had pitched it to Osprey but they were leaning toward considering my proposals of books on two native American wars in the East.

the best chance at this time is the Crimson Book publishing effort which is just now getting of the ground. Not a positive but just a possible.

Hi

Rudy, I am looking for more on the southwest involving the presido system and all. Can you suggest which of the above might address these interests?

I have generics like Kaman, and specifics like Brokaw painting guides, but I want more on the actual history involved and the like.

Rocky

Most of what I read covered the lack of interest troops stationed in Mexico had in transferring to Louisiana. It seems that though bonuses for transferring were offered the men did not volunteer.

The main drawback was that in Mexico a soldier could get by with one set of uniform support items but in Louisiana he need two sets. One was always at the laundry due to the climate.

The most infromation that I found on the Spanish troops on that region was when I was working on the Navajo-Pueblo vs Spanish wars. You might check my article in Time Portal Passages (on magweb). I will check the bio Monday and see about some possible sources.