Captain William Pickles Society
Covington, Louisiana
Children of the American Revolution
Battle on Lake Pontchartrain....
On Lake Pontchartrain, the British sloop, West Florida, which had been harassing American and Spanish vessels for two years, was assaulted by Captain William Pickles commanding a ship originally captured from the British by James Willing.....see more about this and Bernardo de Galvez, the Louisiana hero of the American Revolution!
