It is to your interest to be faithful to me and when my enterprise succeeds, as it certainly will, you shall have your proper share of the reward.

Bernardo Galvez, as you know, is the Governor General of Louisiana, and his father is the Viceroy of Mexico.

They are powerful, very powerful, and I am only a commander of troops under the son, but I, too, am powerful.

My family is one of the first in Spain.

It sits upon the very steps of the throne and more than once royal blood has entered our veins.