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Spain: The European Power America Forgot
From the siege of Pensacola to the Camino de Santiago, the country that shaped American foundations has been written out of the anniversary. This series begins where America's 250th memory has its largest gap.
On a humid March morning in 1781, Bernardo de Gálvez rode at the head of four Spanish ships into the narrow entrance of Pensacola Bay, flying his own flag from the lead vessel while British guns opened fire. It was a reckless move, and it worked. By May, after a two-month siege, Pensacola had fallen. Spanish arms had taken Mobile the year before and tightened the Gulf against Britain at the very moment the American war needed another front. That scene is the right place to begin because Spain's contribution to American independence was both concrete and oddly easy to miss.
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