Display Patriot - P-114078 - Luis BETANCOUR/BETANCOURT/BETHANCOURT
Luis BETANCOUR/BETANCOURT/BETHANCOURT
SAR Patriot #:
P-114078
The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
State of Service: ESP
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
The cemetery is located adjacent to church at 2361 Highway 18, Edgard, Louisiana 70049
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Author: Allen John Mollere III
Luis Bethancour/Bethancourt the Patriot, and 264 other Canary Islanders arrived in New Orleans 01 Nov 1778 aboard the “Santisimo Sacremento”. Luis is listed on the ship manifest as passenger #56, a bachelor, armed, and assigned to 2nd Company, 1st Battalion, Louisiana Regiment. This regiment would become one of the backbones of Governor Bernard de Galvez’s campaigns against Manchac, Baton Rouge, Mobile, Pensacola, and of the first lines of defense in this far-flung province. The Louisiana Regiment was called, in English, “the Fixed Infantry Regiment of Louisiana. Luis went on to fight with Galvez on 06 Sept 1779 in the Battle of Fort Bute on Bayou Manchac. From Manchac, Spanish forces under Galvez, from the Province of Louisiana, left New Orleans with 500 soldiers including Luis Betancourt and others, adding militiamen along the way, arriving on 12 Sept 1779 to lay siege and then capture the dirt fort in the Battle of Baton Rouge. In the next military engagement, Governor General Bernard de Galvez, including Luis Betancour, went on to defeat the British at the Battle of Fort Charlotte in Mobile Bay on 13 Mar 1780. From Mobile Bay in 1780, Galvez, including Luis Betancourt, began a move against Pensacola with a massive Spanish land and sea force, defeating the British in the Battle of Pensacola.
Luis was present for the Galvez roll call at the Battle of Manchac on 09 Sept 1779 and remained on roll through 1783. His presence is documented in the Military Record of Churchill Spanish Records. These documents are currently in the Havana, Cuba Archives, and the Tulane University historical documents section of the Library. Additionally, Luis Betancour appears as Ancestor # A009734 in the Daughters of the American Revolution Descendants Database, Service Source: Churchill, Spanish Records, P64; Service Description: Galvez La. Militia; Rank: PS for Patriotic Service. Posting from Spain’s Louisiana Patriots in its 1779-1783 War with England During the American Revolution by Granville W. and N. C. Hough states: El Teniente Dn Luis Bertucart, su Edad 44 anos ; su Pais Francia cia; au calidad. noble; au salud. Robusta ••• o Lieutenant, July 7. 1780. No se ha presentado todavia en el Rexisto. por estar em- pleado en e1 exercito de operacion de america. (Signed) Miro.
The preceding roughly states that Luis is a Lt. on 07 Jul 1780 in the American Army, from France. (France previously owned La. Territory, but sold it to Spain.)
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