Capture of Fort Bute

1779 Sep 7

Capture of Fort Bute

East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, U

Capture of Fort Bute © José Ferre-Clauzel

The Capture of Fort Bute signalled the opening of Spanish intervention in the American Revolutionary War on the side of France and the United States. Mustering an ad hoc army of Spanish regulars, Acadian militia, and native levies under Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent, Bernardo de Gálvez, the Governor of Spanish Louisiana stormed and captured the small British frontier post on Bayou Manchac on September 7, 1779.

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