Capture of Fort Bute
| Capture of Fort Bute | |||||||
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| Part of the Western Theater of the American Revolutionary War | |||||||
La Marcha de Gálvez by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Spain | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Col. Bernardo de Gálvez | Capt. Georg von Haake | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 1,430 regulars, militia, & natives | 23 Waldecker grenadiers | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| None |
1 killed 16 captured | ||||||
The Capture of Fort Bute, also known as the Battle of Manchac Post, signalled the opening of Spanish intervention in the American Revolutionary War on the side of France and the United States. Mustering an ad hoc army of Spanish regulars, Acadian militia, and native levies under Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent, Bernardo de Gálvez, the Governor of Spanish Louisiana stormed and captured the small British frontier post on Bayou Manchac on September 7, 1779.