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While George Washington fought the British in New England, a little-known hero joined the fight in Louisiana--Pierre George Rousseau. In 1779, Spain declared war on Britain, paving the way for Spanish involvement in the American Revolutionary War. Pierre George Rousseau, a Spanish naval officer, joined the fight. He led the Spanish campaign against the British in the Louisiana territory and captured the British strongholds of Baton Rouge, Mobile, and Pensacola.
After the war, Rousseau served as a commanding general under the last six Spanish-colonial governors of Louisiana, until the...

Bernardo de Gi1/2lvez, Spanish colonial governor of Louisiana, earned a reputation for efficient government and intelligent military command through his civic policies and courageous military campaigns. A comprehensive study of the history of Spanish control in Louisiana, this work examines Gi1/2lvez's career as governor and the end of his career as a viceroy of New Spain.

An ally of the newly formed United States, Gi1/2lvez funneled money and supplies to the revolutionaries before entering the fray himself, commanding his troops in the only American Revolutionary War battle west of...

In 1952, Frank L. Klingberg's article on introvert and extrovert American foreign policy moods projected an American turn toward introversion in the late 1960s. After this came to pass, Jack Holmes began to develop a theory of how these moods might work in a more specific sense. His mood/interest theory points to a basic conflict between politico-military interests and the foreign policy moods of the American electorate.

Holmes presents a pioneering account of the over-whelming impact of public moods on foreign policy. Policy-making structures, executive-legislative relations,...