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Section 3, Page C-l
Daily Livin;
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MARIA WATSON Herald Bay Bureau Chief
What began as an historical research project in Bay St. Louis has turned into a DAR History Month program reaching international proportions.
An hour-and-a-half of Franco-American relations “from 1699 to 1975" _«rtH be Druantcd at a
French embassy. Mrs. Beauchamp has had several conversations with the count and the plan has ballooned from a discussion of early Gulf Coast history to a sweeping presentation covering almost 300 years.
The count, who said he would be traveling to Paris in January, volunteered to
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Meanwhile, the British, in attempts to halt westward expansion of the colonies, had positioned garrisons along the river to stop French traders running pelts to New Orleans for export.
Recognizing the threat of commercial strangulation, Don Bernardo gath-ered a force of 700
“They took Mobile, and inside of a year, they had taken Pensacola as well," Mrs. Beauchamp said.
"The American Revolution owes a huge debt to Don Bernardo de Galvez because he kept the British from coming in on the backs of the colonies' struggling armies in South Carolina and Virginia."