Yes what a glorious victory in destroying the fort.
1669
Keep building that fort people. No more breaks. Get back to work.
Rene de Laudonniere established Fort Caroline in northeast Florida for France.
1704
Castillo de San Marcos
Welcome to San Sebastian River
Sir Francis Drake attacked St. Augustine in 1586. His forces destroyed the sixth wooden fort.
1740-1742
We will guard the Fort with our lives.
The construction of a stone fort is ordered in St. Augustine.
1762
Sir Sir something terrible has happened. The French and the Spanish have allied together to defeat us.
oh NO!
The Cubo Line began in St. Augustine. a half mile wall ran from the Castillo de San Marcos to the San Sebastian River.
The Spanish built Fort Matanzas to guard the back entrance to St. Augustine. Positioned on Rattlesnake island the Fort guarded the back entrance of Matanzas inlet.
Spain allied with the French against Britain during the Seven Years War, called the French and Indian War in the Ameicans