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Here's one that might take a little research. Two states have used a slogan on their license plate, "The _____ State", and that word was the name of a chemical element from the periodic table. One of them is Nevada, "The Silver State". What was the other one?
This wasnt a very good question. We drifted to license plates, but its not really relevant to the forum. the correct answer to this one is South Carolina, "The Iodine State", in 1926. Setting a new standard for bizarre slogans. Later, South Carolina briefly used my favorite, "Nothing Could Be Finer".
The one I had always hoped for, would be "No, It's Iowa". (Reply to "Is this Heaven?", in "Field of Dreams".)
Someplace I saw a list of whimsical ones. "A Long Way Across" for Nebraska. "Northernmost Southern State" for Indiana.
Few Americans are aware that Bernardo de Galvez was the Spanish governor of the Louisiana territory that encompassed 13 of our present states. They are also unaware that long before any formal declaration of war, General Galvez sent gunpowder, rifles, bullets, blankets, medicine and other supplies to the armies of General George Washington and General George Rogers Clark.
Once Spain entered the war against Great Britain in 1779, this dashing young officer raised an army in New Orleans and drove the British out of the Gulf of Mexico. General Galvez captured five British forts in the Lower Mississippi Valley.
They repelled a British and Indian attack in St. Louis, Missouri and captured the British fort of St. Joseph in present-day Niles, Michigan. With reinforcements from Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, General Galvez captured Mobile and Pensacola, the capital of the British colony of West Florida.
At Pensacola, Galvez commanded a multinational army of over 7,000 black and whitesoldiers. These men were born in Spain, Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Hispanola, and other Spanish colonies such as Venezuela. The city was defended by a British and Indian army of 2,500 soldiers and British warships.
An American historian called the siege of Pensacola "a decisive factor in the outcome of the Revolution and one of the most brilliantly executed battles of the war." Another historian stated that General Galvez' campaign broke the British will to fight. This battle ended in May 1781, just five months before the final battle of the war at Yorktown.
General Bernardo de Galvez and his contributions have been remembered even to this day with statues and even a city named in his honor, Galveston, Texas.
Even fewer people are aware of the short lived "Republic of West Florida", which lasted for three months (in 1810) before being incorporated into Louisiana. The 8 parishes east of the Mississippi and north of Lake Ponchartrain are still called "The Florida Parishes", having remained in Spanish Florida for some yeas after the Louisiana Purcahse brought in the rest of the state.
Even fewer people are aware of the short lived "Republic of West Florida", which lasted for three months (in 1810) before being incorporated into Louisiana. The 8 parishes east of the Mississippi and north of Lake Ponchartrain are still called "The Florida Parishes", having remained in Spanish Florida for some yeas after the Louisiana Purcahse brought in the rest of the state.
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I was referring to the fact than Spain helped Americans in their War of Independency.
General Bernardo de Galvez.
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