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{{for|the festival named for him|Billy Bowlegs Festival}} | {{for|the festival named for him|Billy Bowlegs Festival}} | ||
[[Image:WilliamBowles.jpg|right|William Augustus Bowles]] | [[Image:WilliamBowles.jpg|right|William Augustus Bowles]] | ||
− | '''William Augustus Bowles''' ([[1763]]-[[1805]]), also known as '''Estajoca''' and | + | '''William Augustus Bowles''' ([[1763]]-[[1805]]), also known as '''Estajoca''' and traditionally as '''Billy Bowlegs''', was a Maryland-born English adventurer who served with the Maryland Loyalists Battalion as an ensign during the American Revolution, having joined the British Army as a foot solider at fourteen. By [[1777]] he was an ensign in the British Navy, with which he sailed to Jamaica and later Pensacola, but was stripped of his rank for insubordination and dereliction of duty. |
He left Pensacola with a group of Creek Indians, but returned in [[1779]] and fought with British forces against [[Bernardo de Gàlvez]] during the [[1781]] [[Siege of Pensacola]]. | He left Pensacola with a group of Creek Indians, but returned in [[1779]] and fought with British forces against [[Bernardo de Gàlvez]] during the [[1781]] [[Siege of Pensacola]]. |