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ON BERNARDO DÉ CALVEZ, CAvallero Pensionado of my Real and Distinguished Order of CARLOS TERCERO, Lieutenant General of my Royal Excellencies, Commander General of the Office of the President, who is the President, Governor and General Commander in Gefedelas Provinces of Lauu% siana, Panzacola 7 Moviía, and others owned by the British $ J with the name of West Florida. I know that by the relations of your distinguished merit, I am well aware that by the example of your elders you have chosen the very profession of arms, and that you have done the Guer 1. + Of Portugal, of Volunteer, and with the rank of 1% Lieutenant of Infantry, in one thousand seven hundred sixty, and f! Then I sent you to the Kingdom of New Spain, where the Captain of the Fixed Regiment of Infantry is the Crown and Commander of the Provinces, and frontiers of that Empire, My Royal Weapons, many honoring the honor of the fiery Apache Indians, at the expense of your Blood, for having been wounded in several retreats, and very dangerous in any of them. He returned to Spain from my Order in one thousand seven hundred seventy-two, and you became Captain of the Regiment.



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'"" or } . Of the Seville Infantry on the landing and of the Playaf of Algiers in my seven hundred f and five attempts, and I shall be seized of the wounded, and you have not retired until executed with the Com- Hunters of your charge, so that I granted the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and sent you to the Military School of Avila, where you accredited the application, and talents of which I had been informed. Respectively. 1 To agree to my service provide defense, and $ |? To promote the Population and Commerce of the Province, and to have at that important point the person of my entire trust, I conferred upon you in one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six the employment of Colonel of his Re 1 I And I immediately commissioned your interim government, whose employment, and other Commission? 1 nes of my Service, as in some delicate incidents with the English over the River, and their ' You have proceeded with the greatest justification. 3 E prudence, vigor, and propriety corresponding to me. I Real Name, and Sovereignty, so that in one thousand seven & one hundred seventy-nine, I granted you the rank of Briti I Gadier. I Accurate I for the just, and relevant moti i | Which are to the whole of Europe declaring the Guerrier to the King of Great Britain, you have received my Orders. *, Is instructions concerning the breaking, with the title of the property of the Government of the Luysiana | I at the end of July of one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine; It is I and although by the situation, and weak State of strength of 1 | Said Province unanimously opined all Ofi II cals ¥



That you should summon up to the council, -that the Plan should be reduced to a defensive one, until you received the reinforcements of the Havam, you took upon yourself only the heroic resolution to attack The English in their own posts, and fortifications. It is true that in these circumstances, on the eighteenth of August, a furious uracan came, Drowned almost all the Boats, that you had in + To the Rio with the preparations for the campaign, ruined | To many houses of the New Orleans, and destroyed everything in the surrounding countryside, you knew how to keep the Troop and Neighborhood of that Capital so vigorously that instead of being discouraged they labored more with the Misfortunes, and offered themselves to the company, which prepared them. Having thus removed some Boats, and Arti $ from the bottom of the River, and gathered up to seven hundred and the men of Veteran Troops, Recruits, and Militias of all colors, you set out in twenty and Seven of August without Shops, Equipages, Engineers, He was no more than a sick Artillery Officer, who drove for Rio the one that you could prepare, and then made a painful and precipitous march with it. • people, and some Indians, and other Breeds that you added, arrived at the Fort of Manchak, and on the sept of September you took it by surprise, and stormed & without any misfortune, leaving your Priory Warrior Garrison . Even though your people had been reduced by half to fatigue, and some illnesses, you marched on the thirteenth against the Fort of Baton f



F Róuge, where the English Troops had been assembled and fortified, and having recognized it, That by its advantageous situation, width, and depth I | Of its trenches, high and steep of its walls, and guarded by thirteen guns, and defended by two men, would be, if not impossible, very costly. He attacked for assault; And with this knowledge you have f | Form trench> and establish battery \ éxecutas | | Happily, distracting the enemy from the SI parage of a false attack that you made. | | On the twenty-first day the fire broke your battery, and at three-and-a-half hours he had left the fort, and so he called, and said, Troop prisoner of War, and delivered f | Was the Fort of Panmure de Natches, which was well f | Trimmed and in a dominant position; What so | Ife if executed, t | At the same time by your orders, and in accordance with the provisions, Tompson, I, and Amith were seated with the other establishments which had the British in the East of the Mississippi, and were apprehended on their waters Eight boats that I went from Panzacola to the aid of the expressed Fuertes, This company, and its respawning operations were | And their success so felicitous, that without having more than one man wounded in the Troop of your man, you made the Weapons to a thousand British, and you laid | . + In my domination four hundred and thirty leagues $ | Of penguins, and fertile lands, populated by Estan | And of various Indian Nations merchants f in jf

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In this case, by diverting into this territory the entry of four of my enemies into the Inland Provinces of New Spain, for whose singular service I made you Marshal of the Field of my Exercises, Anxious for your determination to continue military operations according to my You embarked on the conquest of the Movila, and embarked with a thousand and two hundred men composed of troops, militias, people of color, auxiliaries, and servants; And on the fourteenth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, you gave the candle of the Mississippi with fourteen vessels of different parts; But from the twenty-seventh day of the same month the Comboy was so terribly contrasted by the elements, that at the cost of many hardships and restlessness I arrived at La Ria de la Movila, at whose bar the Commander Frigate wrecked, and the Brigantine Which assembled with four other ships. This unfortunate event was followed by a storm so severe that only people could save it, and even the eighth of the men left almost naked on the beach of a deserted island, where you found yourself without sight, Ammunition, or other resources which would be of value to you, and the record of the Troop, for in such critical circumstances you were to go to the assault of the Castile of the Movila, forming scales with the fragments of The ships that were shipwrecked, and you would have carried it out, if a relief of life, and people who on that occasion arrived from Havana on four small ships of my Royal Navy, To arrange for the re-embarkation of the people, with which, notwithstanding the continuation of the Temporal, you liberated before W B of W ^ H ^^



. On the twenty-fourth day of February, and I sent the most exacting measures for the execution of the Site, and you formed Trinchera, you established Batteries, and in spite of the continuous ones, and well served fires of the Enemy, and his strenuous resistance to the aid of a thousand and one hundred men, whom General Juan Campbell had taken out of this Panzacola, you opened up, and narrowed so that the besieged, that the fourteenth J of March surrendered the Plaza by capitulation, and three hundred and seventy men remained in the presence of the English General, who retired aptly with the loss of a Captain, and sixteen Dragons who took him prisoners , And in spite of the fact that his operation had been reduced to being an eyewitness to your military skill, and to the valor of my Troops, who carried the Artillery and all other things necessary for the Site. This happy conquest has ended, and since then I have been in Panzacola, according to my orders; But you could not undertake it at that time because of the delay of the reinforcements of troops, and of maritime aid which ought to have been sent from La Habana, and they left in a season so abanzada that by the temps, Of Mar it was necessary to desist in that occasion, and to withdraw the Ships to said Port. With this purpose, and in order to make an effort, Havana was in charge of everything necessary to such an important company, you embarked on a small brigantine, and you went in person to promote the Expedition, That, overcoming the efforts of your adivity, zeal, and love for my Royal Service, many difficulties,



At last the sixteen of Odubre of my seven hundred and forty-eight To the Troops, who were able to supply you at a fleet and Comboy to attack Panzacola; But the next day an uranan of the most terrible that has been experienced in the Mexican Sine, which lasted eighty hours, dispersed, and mistreated, and caused all the ships of the Esquara and Comboy to run. That some of them drowned, and others took refuge, and took refuge wherever they could. Having maintained, however, from this failure, for a month at sea with the request to reach the meeting point, were you ready to bid for Havana in? The same frigate that was leading you, with another one of them in the square, and two Englishmen whom they seized. Although that unfortunate event had dispersed the Comboy, dividing the troop which had landed in various places, and the difficulties in Havana had increased, you labored for your ardent zeal, and for the purpose of covering your province, Conquered against the operations of the English, who had tried several times to recover what had been lost, and when the Movila's attacks had been attacked on several occasions, which had been rejected, One thousand three hundred and fifteen men, with one Na- & e saw, two Frigates, and other Warships v X | And transportation. On the twenty-eighth of February of the present year, with these forces of the Port of Havana, and on the right of the island of Santa Rosa, The Troops on the night of March nine, and the following day you took A &



And from all over the Island, by removing with a Drum, which forms, two British War Frigates, which from the interior of the Bay were firing on the Troops. . You were encamped on that island to wait for those which, according to your preventive orders, should come to that point in New Orleans and Movila; The necessary precautions # to ensure the Camp, Esquadra and Comboy; And having resolved that the entrance of the Puertor would be focused, it was put into execution on the eleventh day in the evening; But it was not effected by the fact that he had touched the Commanding Vessel to the Vanguard in the Barra de la J, so he turned and bolted with all the other ships to the anchorage from which they had been taken. You decided to repeat the operation the following day; But having been examined, and discharged unanimously by the Commander, and Navy Officers, the enterprise was impracticable because of the tortuousness of the Canal, the great current of water, the lack of safe practices, and the fires of the Castle of The red boats that ran, and beat for Popa, and for every boat I took, He gave up the attempt, and having in view the sad situation in which you would remain with the Troop landed, and which was to come by Land, and I and Mar de la Movila, and the New-Qrleans , If a blow of the common winds on that Costa Brava needed the Esmate, and Comboy to carry anchors, and on the other, the detrimental effect it would be for my Royal Arms to desist from the enterprise which had Confident, you searched for

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: I have been in favor of all ships, which gave you the prudence, and policy to reduce to the Commander of the Ships, that the minors reiterate the attempt to enter into port; But you could not get it. (In this case you resolved on an action as risky as it was precise, heroic, and praiseworthy in that situation, which was to enter you alone in the Port, and reserving of all your determination, you embarked without a domestic officer or servant At about two o'clock in the afternoon of the eighteenth of the same March in him -Vergantjn Galvestown, and making you salute, and belted the insignia of your degree, you commanded that he sail, and marveled at the Port for the Port, and so he executed The continual fire of the said Castle of the Barrancas, which did not cause damage to the said vessel, nor to those of a gunship, and a Galeota, who followed you at some distance, and in view of the army, Ésquadra, Comboy, and of the Enemies, you forced the entrance of the Channel, and you came to anchor in the Bay ofPanzacola at a distance where the enemy could not offend you, and leaping ashore through the interior of that Island, you received the Troop of yours I command with the applause that you were a creditor; And with this heroic example the next day was settled at nine o'clock the entrance of the Warships and Comboy, and there was no disgrace, notwithstanding the living fire of the enemy Castle, except the Comandante Commander, who remained outside, and then retired to the Island from Cuba; But in the meantime all the Vessels entered in a Failure on the Channel to direct, and the Auxiliary,



"Artillery," and "auxiliary troops who needed it." "Then the Troops came: I," and "others; Stores. According to your oppor- tunities, the orders should be sent from: And you gave them all the necessary measures for the attack of the different fortifications which they defended: the English and the French, Eight hundred men, and two regular troops, "many Black Volunteers, and one and a multitude of fierce Indians, who hid themselves in the forests of the Campaign, and were crushed by the cavalry, Enemy and their Light Troops, bothered you, and vigorously resisted the access to the Plaza, to prevent the loss of people, and to have the right to take possession of them. And you, with your Excellency, condemned, by force of arms, the Artillery, Ammunition, Ammunition, Food, and other necessities. For operations, and subsistence of the Army; And having resolved to attack with preference the strong fan of the half-moon, you began the work, and at this time it came timely, and incidentally, a reinforcement of Earth and Sea with the A squadron of the Havaoa, who had gone out to seek the English, and to cover the place if it should come to the place. Help as he had believed. Then the work was strengthened, and when the trin-fera was opened, you struck the strongest enemies with the greatest vigor, and these also corresponded to you, and made several exits, and attacks upon your posts, and some of the same trench held valiantly The 1 # f



I. • 5 ^ xr .... 1 M the Troops, and were rejected with scorn the% It's British. When, on the eighth day of May, you resolved to attack the fort of the half-moon by force, it was already foreseen that a pomegranate, thrown from your batteries, would burn the Powder Store of that Fortress, The explosion would blow a part of it with a hundred and five Englishmen who took it, and approving it from this "failure" you made to occupy that position and to lead to the some * cannons, and shells with tan And that when the enemy attempted to do so by themselves, they were surprised by the fire of their Artillery, and by the fact that the British Generals were unable to do so. To continue the defense on account of which he was dominated from the fortress which was flown, and whipped Fort George from end to end, and resolved "at the end of the Capitulation, by putting the Tandera in the afternoon. And in accordance with the articles which you had, as convenient, was effected on the morning of the tenth day, and on the day of the surrender, in which case there were a hundred and Three hundred and three pieces of mounted Artillery), and all other objects, and the whole of the Garrison was kept prisoner until the number of fourteen hundred men with their respective Officers and Among them! Field Marshal Juan Campbell Commander in Chief of the Troops, and Vice-Admiral Pedro Chesino, Governor 3 / Captain General of the Province. In the sixty-one days that ran from the To the Panzacola strain, and were as follows:



And so forth, with the greatest prudence, vigilance, and humanity, according to what the cases and circumstances demand, without giving up work, fatigue, "You were concurrently in the first, and you received two wounds from the belly and the left hand on the twelfth day of April, which dismayed your Army, but they did not prevent you from directing the operations of the Site: And from the very beginning, according to the Governor of England, you have preserved all hostility and damage to the population and the inhabitants of Panzacoia, and the inhabitants have represented the British King, honoring and justice to your humanity. By this glorious Conquest, and the previous ones you have done to me, the important and desired object of casting the English of all the Mexican Sine, where they have so much harmed my Vassals and Royal interests, Time of Peace as of War; And having had by your announcements the news of such a plausible event, I immediately granted you the rank of Lieutenant-General of my Excellencies, and with the presence that the great Port of Panfcacola was known as the Bay of Santa Maria; Which later had the additamento of Galve in the gift of the Count of this Title, for having been recognized, and populated-in the time that was Viceroy of New Spain; And that it is just that you should remain an honorable sign, and. Perpetual in that para; I have resolved that des- i! T y. ! Of now, and forever be named lady of Santa Marta de Gafaez in honor, and glory, of Ja Virgin 4. San- f

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XIII. Santísima, and your memory as your Conqueror: That the Castle of the Colored Barrancas, called before Santo Thomé, is named San Carlos because it was built in the time of D. Carlos Segundo, and verified its recovery in my happy King-nado : May the Fort Jorge be named in the coming of San Migué! On account of having surrendered on the day of the Appearance of this Holy Archangel General of the God of the Armies: and that in order to perpetuate in your posterity the memory of the heroic action, with which you forced only the entrance of said Bay, The shield of your arms Galvestown brig with the motto: I ONLY 5 and use your blazon your sons, descendants, and successors. Likewise, I have resolved to establish in Govierno, and in the Province of the Indies, the Provinces of the Luysiana, Panzacola, Movila, Appalachia, and others, which were owned by the people of West Florida, and To appoint you, as I hereby appoint you as First Governor, and Captain-General independent of them, with the salary for the time being, and shall remain for the urgencies of the present War of ten thousand dollars a year, which shall be paid to you from my Reals Caxas, and Treasuries for this Employment, which it is my will that you retain, and serve for the Lieutenants, Cabos, and subjects which may be of your satisfaction, and appoint at your discretion, removing them, and replacing them without consultation, And employed in the very important Commissions entrusted to you by the leadership of my Excellency,



T XIV. And in order to be recognized, and? § obey in the Provinces of your Government 5. And I will send you authorized copies of this Royal Decree of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I have recently declared, that the relationship made in this Royal Decree, which is to be found in all the parts of the Royal Decree, Of your appointed services and prizes which you have been able to deserve, I have made it possible to extend you by honor, memory, and satisfaction of your person, and circumstances, and which you have in your Illustrious House and Family this document "I have given you my royal gratitude for the qualification of your worthy merit, and that you always have the right causes, because I have made you distinct, and I send all my Councils, Letters and Hearings, Courts And Provincials of the Dominicans, and Provinces of the Dominican Republic, and the Provinces of the Dominicans, and the Provinces of the Dominican Republic, Panzacola, Movila, Apalache, and the like of Florida, who, upon seeing this Royal Decree, or their authorized copy, obey, fulfill, and execute in all parts thereof, under penalty of incurring My Real wd Displeased. Given at San Lorenzo el Real, signed, it is the signature of my Royal Hand, sealed with my secret Seal, and endorsed by my undersigned Secretary of State, and of the Universal Office of the Indies on November 12th, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one zz % TO THE RET-Joseph de Galvezzi VM erige | For example,



. For now the Provinces of the Luysiana, Panza-cola, Movila and others that the English possessed with? The name of West Florida in Govierno, and independent Captaincy General, and appoints by its first Governor, and Captain General to the Lieutenant General of his Royal Armies D. Bernardo de Gal-vez.nEo whose due gift is given to the Stamp in the Printing Of the Episcopal Curia of the City of Havana on March 4, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two. It is reprinted at the expense of a friend in Santa Fe de Bogotá on the fifteenth of July of the same year.