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U. S. FIR^T 'L7 OF F^?JCO WAR VESSEL
WEST FLORIDA VEETS AT SHIP ISLAND WITH SPANISH GOV. GALVEZ AND THE SPANISH FL^ET TO ATTACK MOBILE AND PENSACOLA ? PLAN INTERRUPTED BY
GALE
January 20, 1780
"Nev Orleans Genesis" - Genealogical Research Society of New Orleans Vol. XV - #57 - January 1976 - p. ^
"Eiixrr Pollock Genealogy" - a biographical sketch bf Oliver Pollock
by Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden
The following letter from Oliver Pollock to Captain William Pickles vill show with vhat energy he prosecuted the Interests of the Colonies:
New Orleans, 20th January, 1780
Dear Sir:
You are now appointed Commander of the sloop West Florida, belonging to the United States of America, all ready dispatched with a sufficiency of provisions on board for sixty days, for your crew, consisting of 58 men, as you will see by the enclosed account.
In consequence you will make all possible dispatch with the said vessel & crewy under your command for Ship Island, ^where I expect you will meet with Governor Galvez's fleets for which you have herewith enclosed the signals agreed upon betwixt him & you, at which place you will Join him, & proceed against Mobile & Pensacola, & give all the assistance in your power to Governor Galvez, & the colander-in-chief of the Spanish fleet. . .
... Your experience end good Judgment must govern you entirely respecting your attacking any of the enemy's ships or vessels. Not in the least doubting your care and c?eal for the lives of your E^ood officers and men, and the property Df the United'Stetes, I conclude, wishing you success, and a safe and happy passage.
OLIVER POLLOCK *
When the Governor of the Spanish Eouisiana Province, Eernardo
de Galves^ left for Mobile attack February 5, 1780, it?achieved? success feiarch 1^, 1780.	^