Battle of Lake Pontchartrain
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The <entity_0> was a single-ship action on <entity_2>, part of the Anglo-Spanish War. It was fought between the <entity_5> sloop-of-war HMS <entity_3> and the Continental Navy schooner USS Morris in the waters of <entity_1>, then in the <entity_5> province of <entity_3>. <entity_3> was patrolling on <entity_1> when it encountered Morris, which had set out from New Orleans with a Spanish and American crew headed by Continental Navy Captain William Pickles. The capture of <entity_3> eliminated the major <entity_5> naval presence on the lake, weakening already tenuous <entity_5> control over the western reaches of <entity_3>. In 1778 James Willing led a raiding expedition directed against targets in <entity_5> <entity_3>. The <entity_5> province of <entity_3> extended from the Mississippi River in the west to the Apalachicola River in the east. HMS <entity_3> had been cruising <entity_1> since 1776 under the command of George Burdon, stopping and searching all manner of shipping, including Spanish merchants destined for New Orleans, to the annoyance of the Spanish. On that day Bernardo de Gálvez, the governor of Spanish <entity_4>, launched an expedition to gain control of <entity_5> military posts on the Mississippi, and the boat was captured by his men. The <entity_6> is commemorated by a historic marker in Mandeville, <entity_4>. The marker credits William Pickles with ending the Revolutionary War in <entity_4>, since some <entity_5> individuals on the north shore of <entity_1> evidently surrendered to Captain Pickles in mid-October 1779 (three weeks after the Battle of Baton Rouge).
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