Happy Birthday Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid–An Honorary U.S. Citizen

  Portrait of Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid by Carlos Monserrate Carreño, on display in the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Image used with permission of the Curator of the United States Senate. Bernardo Vicente Apolinar de Gálvez y Madrid is one of those unsung heroes of American history.  Today, I would like to share a few highlights about this giant of Americana. Born on July 23, 1746, in Macharaviaya—a town and municipio in Málaga within the autonomous community of Andalusia, which is situated in the south of Spain—Bernardo de Gálvez was quite an accomplished man.  In 1776, at age 29, he was appointed governor of then Spanish Louisiana.  According to a National Park Service article on Gálvez, “[h]is mission as a top military and civilian authority of this land which stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rockies, from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada, was to deal fairly with the French Creole…

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