Gulf Coast campaign

Gulf Coast campaign
Part of the American Revolutionary War

Spanish Troops at Pensacola, Florida by H. Charles McBarron Jr., showing the Louisiana Regiment (white coats) and the Company of Free Blacks of Havana (red coats) storming Fort George at Pensacola.
Date1779–1781
Location
British West Florida
Result Spanish victory
Belligerents

Great Britain

Choctaw

Creek
Commanders and leaders

The Gulf Coast campaign or the Spanish conquest of West Florida in the American Revolutionary War, was a series of military operations primarily directed by the governor of Spanish Louisiana, Bernardo de Gálvez, against the British province of West Florida. Begun with operations against British positions on the Mississippi River shortly after Britain and Spain went to war in 1779, Gálvez completed the conquest of West Florida in 1781 with the successful siege of Pensacola.

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