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State of Service: ESP
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Birth: 12 Jan 1754 Pointe Coupee / / LA Death: 23 Jan 1837 St. Martinville / / LA
Qualifying Service Description:
Opelousas Militia under Governor Bernardo Galvez
Spanish Soldier, LA
Additional References:
Louisiana Patriots, 1776-1783. Elizabeth Whitman Schmidt, compiler. DAR. 1994
SAR Spanish Records: Spanish-English War, 1779-1783, Opelousas Militia List dated 8 June 1777, Men under Don Bernardo de Galvez, compiled by C. Robert Churchill, pg 246-248
Abstract Graves of Rev Patriots, Vol 3
Spouse: Catherine Donna Bossier Children: Onesime;
The patriot was moved from Saint Martin de Tours Churchyard to Saint Michael's Cemetery
Inscription - Born St. Landy Died St. Martin
Wife, Catherine Donna (Bossier) Patin, Mother, Marguerite Mayeux and child, Onesime Patin are also burried in the Saint Michael's Cemetery
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
Author: Dana Ludwig Gunter
Antoine Patin, III, served as an officer in the Opelousas Militia from 1770 until after 1780. His unit was under Spain’s Bernardo de Galvez in 1777, aiding the American Colonists in their rebellion against Great Britain. The importance of Galvez’s campaign from the American perspective was that Galvez denied the British the opportunity of encircling the American rebels from the south. He kept open a vital conduit for supplies as well as assisting the American revolutionaries with supplies and soldiers. George Washington and the American Congress cited Galvez for his aid during the American Revolution.
Antoine Patin, III, was the son of Antoine Patin, Jr., one of the leading planters and stockmen of Point Coupee Parish, Louisiana, and his second wife, Marguerite Mayeux. Antoine III married Catherine Bossier in 1774 and later moved to Opelousas and to the Attakapas by the late 1780s. They lived at the Grande Pointe area, along the east bank of the Bayou Teche, east and north of the present-day Breaux Bridge. By 1788, Antoine III owned about 1,000 acres as a cattle ranch east of the Teche.
In June 1779, Spain declared war on Great Britain. The Spanish Colonial Governor of Louisiana, Bernardo de Galvez, was ordered to organize forces and capture British Forts at Mobile, Pensacola and along the Mississippi River. His first priority was along the Mississippi River, to gain control of this critical artery to ensure the colonists had this supply route to the western front and not the British.
Galvez had an army of Spanish Regulars and Louisiana Militia that moved from New Orleans up the Mississippi captured British Fort Bute at Bayou Manchac, September 7, 1779. The Opelousas Militia was part of this force that then captured Baton Rouge and Natchez. Many historians feel that the outcome of the American Revolution would have been far different had the British gained control of this critical supply route. Prior to Galvez' expeditions, England controlled Florida. Had England captured New Orleans and the Mississippi River, Great Britain may have won the war.
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