Spanish Louisiana, Luisiana territory ran west of the Mississippi Rive...
wikipedia - 25 Nov 2022Spanish Louisiana, Luisiana territory ran west of the Mississippi River, but Governor General Gálvez had been allowing covert aid to George Washington by Pittsburgh via New Orleans.[284] In 1777 Oliver Pollock, a successful merchant in Havana and New Orleans, was appointed US "commercial agent". He personally helped to underwrite the American campaign on the upriver Mississippi among the francophone settlements of western Quebec.[285]
