Gulf Coast campaign

Gulf Coast campaign
	Part of the American Revolutionary War
	; Spanish Troops at Pensacola, Florida by H. Charles McBarron shows a grenadier officer of the Louisiana regiment urging his troops to the assault at Pensacola.
Date	1779–1781
Location	British West Florida
Result	Spanish victory
Belligerents
Spain; France; United States; Choctaw;	Great Britain Waldeck; Choctaw Creek
Commanders and leaders
Bernardo de Gálvez (WIA); Francisco de Miranda; José Calvo de Irazabal; José Solano y Bote; Juan Manuel de Cagigal; François-Aymar de Monteil; William Pickles;	John Campbell; Alexander Dickson; ; Johann von Hanxleden †; Konrad von Horn;

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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