I represent Timoteo O’Daly. I was a sub-lieutenant in the Hibernian Regiment, one of three Irish regiments that formed the Irish Brigade of the Spanish Army. Irish soldiers had been serving in Spain for two hundred years by the time of the Revolutionary War, and it was a profitable arrangement for both the Irish-Catholic immigrants and the Spanish Crown. I was born in Ireland about 1745 and entered the regiment as a cadet in 1766. Robert Farmar‘s journal of the siege of Pensacola has this entry for May 4, 1781: “12 o’clock 94 Provincials under the command of Maj. McDonald and Waldecks under the company of Lt. Col. De Horn [sic] to support them, stormed the works in front of the advanced redoubt, burnt their works and spiked 6 pieces of cannon & 4 pounders. The enemy had a great many killed, wounded, and taken prisoners … N.B. the Lieut. of the Irish brigade died of his wounds and was buried with the honors of war. His name was Lt. O’Dun.” That last was a mistake; the lieutenant who died was me. I probably still lie in an umarked grave in Pensacola.
Sources: 8, 28, 88, 89