Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . on of the latter to be captain-general of Cara-cas, toward the end of the year, took charge of thegovernment. He made great improvements inseveral branches of the administration, and gath-ered and colonized several tribes of wandering In-dians, whom he succeeded in civilizing. In 1778the Continental congress sent Capt. Willing as agentto New Orleans, and Galvez assisted him secretlywith arms and ammunition and $70,000 in offered her mediation between the coloniesand Great Britain, and, her offer being repulsed bythe latter, declared war
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . on of the latter to be captain-general of Cara-cas, toward the end of the year, took charge of thegovernment. He made great improvements inseveral branches of the administration, and gath-ered and colonized several tribes of wandering In-dians, whom he succeeded in civilizing. In 1778the Continental congress sent Capt. Willing as agentto New Orleans, and Galvez assisted him secretlywith arms and ammunition and $70,000 in offered her mediation between the coloniesand Great Britain, and, her offer being repulsed bythe latter, declared war on 16 June, 1779. Galvezimmediately formed a plan of campaign, and, al-though he had only a small military force under hiscommand, he did not wait for re-enforcements, but,organizing volunteer regiments, marched north-ward on the eastern river bank. He took FortManchac on 27 Aug., and in September capturedBaton Rouge, Fort Panmure, and Fort October he received re-enforcements from Ha-vana, and was made a major-general. He then in-. GALVEZ 585 vested Mobile with his combined forces, and in Feb.,1780, captured Port Charlotte, forcing; the city tosurrender. JI is army, with the organized militia,soon rose to 14,000 men, and he invaded the north-western part of Florida, defeating the British inseveral encounters, and besieged Pensacola, but, be-ing unable to attack it from the sea-side for want ofsiege artillery and a fleet, went in January, 1781, toHavana, and returned in February with the neces-sary material. The British capitulated on 9 May,and, together with 800 prisoners and the armament,the whole west coast fell into the hands of theSpanish. This feat of Galvez was celebrated by Poydras in a poem which was published at theexpense of the king of France. After the signatureof peace at Versailles, 3 Sept., 1783, Galvez was re-warded by the title of count and the rank of lieu-tenant-general, and was appointed captain-generalof Cuba. On the death of his fath
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