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[[Image:Spanish troops at Pensacola.jpg|thumb|right|Spanish grenadiers and Havana militia pour into the ruins of the [[Queen's Redoubt]]]][[Image:Siege1781.jpg|thumb|right|Contemporary engraving depicting the explosion of the powder magazine]]The '''Siege of Pensacola''' marked the culmination of Spain's conquest of Florida from Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War in [[1781]].
Commanded by Field Marshal [[Bernardo de Gálvez]], Governor of Louisiana and architect of the successful Spanish campaign, a powerful flotilla of warships, that had exploited a weakness in the British land based naval defenses, neutralized outer British defenses and began an amphibious siege (led by the [[Wikipedia:Spanish Navy Marines|Infanteria de Marina]]) of the town on [[March 9]]. The Spanish forces included 580 officers and men (or about nine percent of the entire Spanish soldiery) from the [[Wikipedia:Regiment of Hibernia|Regiment of Hibernia]], one of the three regiments, at that time, of the Irish Brigade of Spain.
