Fig. 1. Equestrian Portrait of Viceroy Bernardo de Gálvez (oil on canvas, 1796), by Fray Pablo de Jesús y Jerónimo
Willing was able to sell the booty of his controversial
expedition against Loyalist settlements along the Missis-
sippi in an auction in New Orleans. All this much-needed
assistance by Bernardo de Gálvez to the revolutionaries'
cause was officially recognized by the authorities of the
new United States of America. In a letter dated 12 June
1777, the Secret Committee wrote him:
We are informed by means of Mr. Oliver Pollock of
the favorable disposition you have been pleased to
manifest towards the Subjects, Interest and cause of
the United, Free and Independent states of America
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