Galvez not only kept the British from attacking Washington's army from the west, but allowed army supplies, weapons, uniforms, and medicine to flow up the Mississippi River to the Ohio River, then across Pennsylvania to the American troops.
The same day, September 13, 1862, Union Private Barton W. Mitchell was drinking coffee and inadvertently noticed three cigars on the ground wrapped with a piece of paper. The paper was a copy of Lee's Special Orders No. 191 addressed to Confederate General D.H. Hill revealing his plan to divide the Confederate Army.
Why was the sinking of the Invincible Spanish Armada significant to America? Had Spain succeeded in their attempts to conquer England, there may have been: no Anglican England; no Puritans wanting to "purify" it; no Pilgrim separatists fleeing it; no New England colonies being settled, and, quite possibly, no United States of America.
The President of the United Nations' General Assembly, 13th Session, was Lebanese diplomat Charles Habib Malik, who helped Eleanor Roosevelt and others write the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Malik stated in 1958: "Whatever these honored men think, the irrefutable truth is that the soul of America is at its best and highest, Christian."
