The Ceuta that changed the history of the United States

It was a quijotada that went well. And a Quixote that, perhaps, changed the course of the History of the world. In all, 29 Spanish soldiers and 281 armed civilians – the vast majority French – led by Fernando de Leyba, from Ceuta, who was so ill with malaria that he could not walk, resisted 300 British militiamen and 900 of their indigenous allies in a battle that prevented Great Britain from entering the Mississippi Delta, cutting supply lines through the ridges