The Hispanic Founder

IdeasThe Hispanic FounderBernardo de Gálvez helped win the Revolution. Can he win over 21st-century America?By Geraldo L. CadavaUniversal History Archive / GettyJuly 3, 2026, 8 AM ET ShareSave One of the biggest Independence Day celebrations outside of North America takes place in Macharaviaya, Spain, a mountain town, population 500, in the southern province of Málaga. Thousands of people attend the festivities, during which villagers wearing 18th-century period costumes reenact the 1781 Siege of Pensacola, a turning point in the American Revolution. The flag of the United States features prominently. To the tune of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” an actor delivers a dramatic reading, in Spanish, of Francis Scott Key’s poem “Defence of Fort M’Henry,” on which the song was based.

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