Longest Siege of the American Revolution, The: Pensacola

1-194620

A comprehensive general account of the nine-week battle, includes daily chronology with maps, 25 color plates of Spanish, French, British, and Irregular forces, bibliography, index, and statistical data. The plates alone, which contain 45 uniforms and two headdress images of all participants, including indians, are worth the price of the book.

This is a fascinating, richly detailed and historically accurate account of one of the most significant military actions in The Revolutionary War era. The hostilities involve a daring assault led by Spanish Field Marshall Bernardo de Galvez against English forces in Pensacola. The Spanish victory not only eliminated England from the best-defended and deepest harbor on the Gulf Coast; it deprived England of a base of operations which had long been a threat to the American colonists in their War for Independence.