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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVB6_st-augustines-bastion_St-Augustine-FL.html
This bastion was named after the patron saint of the city. St. Augustine was established in 1565, 42 years before the English settled Jamestown - 55 years before the Pilgrims stepped onto Plymouth Rock. It grew from 800 people in 1565 to 3,000 in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVB5_firing-steps_St-Augustine-FL.html
After loading their muskets, the soldiers mounted these steps to fire over the parapet at the enemy.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVB3_st-peters-bastion_St-Augustine-FL.html
During Queen Anne's War (1702) English siege trenches came "within a pistol shot" of this point. English ships blockaded the harbor and 500 soldiers and indians took the town. The Castillo offered the only safety, so 200 Spanish soldiers and 1300 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVB2_lines-of-defense_St-Augustine-FL.html
Surrounding defenses made St. Augustine a walled town. From here you can see a reconstructed part of the Cubo Line, the log wall which barred the land approach. It extended from the fort, past the City Gate, to the San Sebasti?n River.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV9S_the-builders-were-human_St-Augustine-FL.html
In 1682, a new engineer found that this bastion had been built 3 feet too low! By 1686, such mistakes were corrected. Labor for the fort included 100 Indians and Spaniards, plus a few convicts and slaves. Indian laborers got 20? per day; masons, $…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV9R_st-pauls-bastion_St-Augustine-FL.html
You are standing in a "bastion," looking along the "curtain" wall toward another "bastion." The angles are planned to expose attackers to cross fire from several walls.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV9O_northern-defense-lines_St-Augustine-FL.html
After the English burned St. Augustine in 1702, the Spanish built earthworks beyond the fort for defense against attack. Water and marsh protected the other sides.
English raiders were stopped in 1728 at the Hornwork, a half mile north of here.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV9N_vigia-de-san-carlos_St-Augustine-FL.html
Signals were exchanged between this tower and a similar one across Matanzas Bay, on the ocean shore near the present lighthouse.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV70_1740-siege_St-Augustine-FL.html
In 1740, General James Oglethorpe of Georgia, vowed to "take St. Augustine or leave my bones before its walls." The Spanish Governor Manuel de Montiano vowed in turn to "shed his last drop of blood" in defense of the town. Neither had to keep thei…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV6Z_st-charles-bastion_St-Augustine-FL.html
Here in 1740 the sentry rang the alarm whenever he saw a puff of smoke from enemy cannon across the bay. It was the signal for prayer.
Only two men in the fort were killed during the 27-day bombardment.