• Title: The Pensacola Campaign, 1781
• Author: Manuel Petinal
• Editorial: Almena
• Year: 2002
• Pages: 80

We have before us a book of nearly a hundred pages of which none is wasted. It has the Spanish campaign in North America during the war of American independence, finally ending with the capture of Pensacola in 1781 recovered the two Floridas to Spain. Almena fully matched in choosing this episode and makes Petinal a more than worthy. It may take a while to get down about the Pensacola campaign, but precisely these pages are a real hand waiting to catch up on the military reality of the eighteenth century, both in weapons and in tactics and strategy. This reading is rewarding and gives us an idea of ​​the difficulties encountered by contestants when we read the rest of the work. This second part goes to the point, with some detail the military adventures Bernardo de Galvez.
Notwithstanding the provision of texts and quotes from the players is quite limited as the images chosen to illustrate the text. But with an appendix of illustrations of the uniforms used by the different troops, without being an outstanding bill allows us to identify the colors of each army. On the other hand is quite improved mapping but very easy to visualize.
This is not a text that stands out for its literary excellence, the author also wanted it but it is tedious to read.
A direct style that is also transmitted to the type of work performed, which simply relate the facts without making barely separate analyzes on them. One example is the long stay dry on the confrontation of Galvez with the military leaders of Havana. Therefore, the findings of the paper is limited to the consequences of Galvez's campaign for the War of American Independence and of this about the geopolitical landscape that appeared after it.
Although a small book contains enough information and detail. If he had thrown the rest deploying more documentation, mapping of the reference period or facts related to the war, could speak of a reference work in Castilian on the subject. It is therefore a good job to introduce myself and know that was the capture of Pensacola in 1781 and his previous campaign.