The Capture of Fort Bute signalled the opening of Spanish intervention in the American Revolutionary War on the side of France and the United States....

Fort Bute (1766–1779) was a colonial fort built by the British in 1766 to protect the confluence of Bayou Manchac with the Mississippi River and was named...

colonial Governor of Spanish Louisiana, after capturing Fort Bute led his force of approximately 1,000 men (reduced by the hardships of the march from New...

16 November 1776, he captured Fort Washington; 1776–1778, Garrisoned New York; 1778–1783, Garrisoned Halifax. See "The Hessians of Nova Scotia" by John...

the Capture of Fort Bute in 1779. Dragon was part of the artillery division under Colonel Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent. He fought in the Battle of Baton...

the capture of Fort Bute and campaigning through the victorious siege of Pensacola in 1781. Pollock's diplomacy assisted in the surrender of Fort Panmure...

forces at Fort Bute, Baton Rouge, and Natchez in 1779. The Battle of Baton Rouge, on 21 September 1779, freed the lower Mississippi Valley of British forces...

Roberts, Robert B. (1988). Encyclopedia of historic forts: the military, pioneer, and trading posts of the United States. New York, N.Y. u.a: Macmillan...

battles of: Capture of Fort Bute (1779) Bernardo de Galvez recruited 760 men including 160 indians in this area. Battle of Baton Rouge (1779) Battle of Mobile...

The capture of Fort Ticonderoga occurred during the American Revolutionary War on May 10, 1775, when a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan...

charge of the militia (but not Spanish regulars), which saw action in the Gulf Coast campaign, including the Capture of Fort Bute, the Battle of Baton...

of enslaved African Americans. Bernardo de Gálvez, Governor of Spanish Luisiana, recruited troops for the surprise attacks and capture of Fort Bute and...

Mississippi Valley, first the attack and capture of Fort Bute at Manchac and then forcing the surrender of Baton Rouge, Natchez and Mobile in 1779 and...

On August 27, Gálvez set out by land toward Fort Bute, leading a force that consisted of 520 regulars, of whom about two-thirds were recent recruits,...

Revolution. The Capture of Fort Bute signalled the opening of Spanish intervention in the American Revolutionary War on the side of France and the United...

American Revolutionary War: Capture of Fort Bute by Spanish troops. 20 to 21 September – American Revolutionary War: at the Battle of Baton Rouge Spanish forces...

hardships of the march, by several hundred, before they reached Fort Bute. At dawn on September 7, this force attacked Fort Bute, a decaying relic of the French...

holdings in West Florida, and Bouligny participated in the capture of Fort Bute and the Battle of Baton Rouge. In 1780, Bouligny led an expedition against...

attack, driving the French southwards and capturing Cassel before the war was halted by an armistice. Bute began to champion the idea that Britain should...

Bernardo Galvez captured Manchac Fort from the English again on September 7, 1779, during what became known as the Battle of Fort Bute of the American Revolutionary...

Mississippi River by capturing Fort Bute and then shortly thereafter obtaining the surrender of the remaining forces following the Battle of Baton Rouge. He...

Revolutionary War, a band of revolutionaries led by Jonathan Eddy attempted to capture Fort Cumberland (Fort Beauséjour) as part of an effort to provoke Nova...

American army outside of Boston and distinguished himself by acts that demonstrated intelligence and bravery: In 1775, he captured Fort Ticonderoga. In 1776...

the British captured Fort Billingsport, on the Delaware in New Jersey, to clear a line of chevaux de frise obstacles in the river. The idea of placing those...

as one of the founders of Vermont and for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolutionary War, and was also the brother of Ira Allen...

partition from its residents, the North Carolina General Assembly abolishes Bute County, North Carolina (established 1764) by dividing it and naming the northern...

Earl of Bute (Tory) (until 8 April); George Grenville (Whig) (starting 16 April) 10 February – Seven Years' War/French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris...

revolution on the side of the Thirteen Colonies. One expedition left Fort Ticonderoga under Richard Montgomery, besieged and captured Fort Saint-Jean, and very...

Washington at the Battle of White Plains, the British forces under the command of Lieutenant General William Howe planned to capture Fort Washington, the last...

The 1st Argyll & Bute Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery formed in Scotland in 1860 in response to a French...