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`The Battle of Pensacola was one of the numerous battles fought as a result of the American Revolution.  In 1763, the British had taken control of Pensacola due to the French and Indian War final negotiations, also known as The Treaty of Paris. The British Royal Navy feared attack for many years but did not face adversity until Spanish general, Don Bernardo de Galvez plotted his plan for the recapture of the city in 1780. Bernardo and his Spanish army along with Andrew Jackson and American volunteers fought together to successfully seize the five British forts in Pensacola: Fort Conde (Fort Charlotte), Royal Navy Redoubt, Fort George, Queen’s Redoubt, and Prince of Wales Redoubt). Unable to defend themselves, the British surrendered. On May 10, 1781, General John Campbell raised the white flag to the Spanish and American troops. Pensacola would remain in Spanish control for the next 40 years until American negotiations pushed the Spanish to renounce their control of the city in 1819.

The Battle of Pensacola is interesting in the fact itself that the there was an involvement of three different groups of peoples. The Americans, British, and Spanish were all contenders in this two-day battle. Pensacola was the Spanish capital of the western Florida and the British

Spanish Pensacola Bay were in control of the town. Pensacola served as an important foothold on British power in West Florida. Andrew Jackson’s American forces intended to liberate the Spanish town from British grasps. The Americans had succeeded in freeing Pensacola from the British, which the Americans handed the town over to the Spanish, as instructed by, at the time, Secretary of State James Monroe. Amongst the three nationalities only a total of twenty-two dead/wounded casualties became the victims of the Battle of Pensacola.