The SAR MAGAZINE is the official quarterly publication of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution published quarterly.
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WINTER 2014-2015 17 COMPATRIOTS! You MaY Be eligiBle for MeMBership in a VerY select order numerous sar members are already affiliated coMpatriots! Eligibility founding ancestor prior to 1657 and a revolutionary War patriot in the same male line. Male line may be from: (1) father's father; (2) Mother's father; (3) father's Maternal grandfather; (4) Maternal grandfather of Mother's father; (5) Maternal grandfather of father's father. for information, contact: daniel c. Warren 1512 steuben road gloucester point, Va 23062 or www.founderspatriots.org If you are a lineal or collateral descendent of someone in the CSA Ofcer's Corps or someone who was an elected or appointed government ofcial in the Confederate States of America, consider joining the Military Order of the Stars and Bars. For information on its activities and eligibility requirements, contact us at: (757) 656-MOSB Or via mail at: MOS&B; - Membership Inquiry P O Box 56251 Virginia Beach, VA 23456 www.militaryorderofthestarsandbars.org I immediately submitted copies of the SAR Resolution to several other organizations, including The Order of the Granaderos de Galvez, The Texas Connection to the American Revolution, Los Bexarenos Genealogical Society and The Canary Islander Association, and requested that they, in turn, distribute a copy to each of their respective members with a request that each of their members contact their congressmen and senators. I also asked each to submit a similar resolution to members of Congress. Our SAR staff sent a copy of the resolution with a cover letter from President General Lindsey Brock to each and every U.S. congressman and senator. In the history of the United States only seven individuals had previously been made Honorary Citizens. They were: Winston Churchill (1963), Raoul Wallenberg (1981), William Penn (1984), Hannah Callowhill Penn (1984), Mother Teresa (1996), Marquis de Lafayette (2002) and Casimir Pulaski (2009). Lafayette and Pulaski were recognized for their service during the American Revolutionary War, so it was fitting that Galvez be considered for that honor. Why? In 1777, Bernardo de Galvez, the newly appointed Spanish governor of Louisiana, began shipping supplies up the Mississippi River in secret to the American Colonists. Gen. George Rogers Clark used the supplies to defeat the British in Illinois and Indiana. From Galvez in New Orleans, Washington received the much-needed supplies at Valley Forge. Spain declared war on the British in 1779. During the next three years, Bernardo de Galvez raised armies from Louisiana and Texas with which he defeated the British all along the Mississippi River and in the Gulf of Mexico. This led to Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown to Gen. Washington and victory for the new United States. Washington publicly acknowledged his help. Galvez's Portrait Hung in United States Senate Sometimes Congress takes a while to keep its promises. This one took only 231 years. It has been that long since Congress pledged to hang a portrait in the U.S. Capitol honoring Bernardo de Galvez, a daring Spanish military leader who became a hero in the Colonies during the American Revolution. An unlikely civil servant in D.C., Teresa Valcarce Graciani, found herself as chairman of a committee to get Congress to honor a promise it made in 1783, following the signing of the Treaty of Paris, which concluded the American Revolutionary War. I was contacted in January 2014 and was made a member of the committee. One of her friends in Malaga, Spain, sent her a copy of a May 1783 letter from Elias Boudinot, the president of the Continental Congress, to an American revolutionary financier, Oliver Pollock. In the letter, Boudinot accepted Pollock's gift of a portrait of Galvez. Pollock had worked with Galvez in New Orleans to acquire and distribute arms, ammunition and military supplies to the Americans. Galvez had been the governor of Spanish-controlled Louisiana. Galvez led his Spanish troops against the British in Baton Rouge and Manchac, La.; Natchez, At the Galvez portrait unveiling ceremony on Dec. 9, 2014, were, from left, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez; Lynn Forney Young, President General, National Society, DAR; Joseph W. Dooley, President General, National Society, SAR (2013-2014); and The Honorable Ramon Gil-Casares, Ambassador from Spain to the U.S. o Continued on page 18