The Louisiana Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Capitol Park Museum and the Capitol Park Welcome Center are hosting a commemorative program honoring the American Revolutionary War's Battle of Baton Rouge, which took place on September 21, 1779.
The watershed Battle expelled the British from Louisiana and the Mississippi River. The watershed battle expelled the British from Louisiana and the Mississippi River. Spanish Governor General Bernardo de Galvez, with an army of 1,427 combatants, including French and Spanish settlers, Indians and African-Americans, captured the British Fort in Baton Rouge in an early morning bombardment. This gave free passage of supplies on the Mississippi River to General George Washington.
There will be a tour of the Louisiana at War gallery, Capitol Park Museum , from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and then to the Fort San Carlos site for the program at 12:30 p.m.
The Fort is located between the Capitol Park Welcome Center and the Pentagon Barracks (Spanish Town Road, at N. Third Street).