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Pre 1791 Spanish Artillery Button Presidio Type Pensacola FloridaDescription
This rare example was recovered near Pensacola, Florida and dates from 1720 to approximately 1791. This well-made, deeply convex type conforms to regulations for and descriptions of Spanish enlisted artillerymen's buttons of the early to late eighteenth century.
Examples have been recovered from various Spanish military occupation sites in both the former Spanish Florida and Louisiana. The terminal date of 1797 coincides with the year in which definitive regulations for marked buttons for Spain's regular artillery forces were issued. Size: 15.07mm.Context
During the Siege of Pensacola in 1781, Governor Bernardo de Galvez led a Spanish force numbering 7,224 officers and men, of which the Spanish Royal Artillery numbered 223 officers and men (5 officers and 218 men).