Acadian Patriots who fought in the American Revolution Part II

Acadian Patriots who fought in the American Revolution Part II

Acadians from Louisiana who fought in 1766 under Galvez

This list from Dudley LeBlanc's Acadian Miracle were copied from the records
in Seville, Spain. Some were written in French and some in Spanish.

Militia at what is now St. James
April 8, 1766
Don Nicholas Verret - Captain

Jean Azostegue Pierre Azostegue Ambroise Bernabe Paul Bernabe Jean Bellefontaine Joseph Bernabe Pierre Berteau Pierre Blanchard Pierre Blanchard, Jr. Joseph Blanchard Laimable Blanchard Jean Jaunis Pierre Lambert Pierre Lambert, Jr. Victor Blanchard Joseph Boudreau Joseph Bourg Pierre Bourg Baptiste Bourgeois

Jean Bourgeois Michel Bourgeois Baptiste Cormier Baptiste Cormier, Jr. Jean Cormier Pierre Charpentier Jean Louviere Jean Millet Pierre Michel Pierre Charpentier, Jr. Pierre Doiron Paul Doucet Jacques Dubain Joseph Foret Joseph Dupuis JeanDugas Pierre Godet Joseph Godet

Claude Godet Francois Hebert Jean Richard Joseph Richard Joseph Robicho Joseph Landry Olivier Landry Pierre Lanoux Andre LeBlanc Jean Mouton Louis Mouton Salvador Mouton Jean Poirrier Jean Sonnier Joseph Terio Pierre Thibodo ------Vallee

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ACADIANS DEFEND THEIR HOME AGAINST THE BRITISH
IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

On June 1779, Spain declared war on Great Britain and ordered Spanish Colonial Governor of Louisiana, Bernado de Galvez to organize an expedition and capture the forts at Mobile and Pensacola and to attack and clear the English from the banks of the Mississippi.
Galvez leaves New Orleans with an army of Spanish regulars and the Louisiana militia made up of 600 Cajun volunteers and captures the British strongholds of Fort Bute at Bayou Manchac, across from the Acadian settlement at St. Gabriel. And on n September 21, they attack and capture Baton Rouge.
Between 1779 and 1781, the census of the Opelousas district listed 535 whites and 218 blacks and the Opelousas Militia was composed of 4 officers, s sergeants, three corporals and 89 enlisted men. The Opelousas Militia was in the detachment that captured Natchez.
Source: "La Compagnie de Malice des Attakapas" was the name of the military unit that fought in the American Revolution. (Spanish Records, dated 1 May 1777. pp. 289-290 "S.A.R. Spanish English War 1779-1783" compiled by C. Robert Churchill).
Thanks to Don Landry for this information.

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