Gálvez is promoted to brigadier general for…
October 1779 CE
Gálvez is promoted to brigadier general for his successful campaign, and his exploits are immortalized in the poetry of Julien Poydras.
He immediately begins planning an expedition against Mobile and Pensacola, the remaining British strongholds in West Florida, which will culminate in the capture of Pensacola, the West Florida capital, in 1781.