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During the 16th century the Spanish strategy was to complement the fortification work in its Caribbean ports with forts in the Strait of Magellan. As attempts at settling and fortifying the Strait of Magellan were abandoned the Spanish began to fortify the Captaincy General of Chile and other parts of the west coast of the Americas. The coastal ...
The fort in Niebla faces Corral Fort and lies at the northern entrance of Valdivia River. The fort was undergoing an enlargement when works stopped in 1810. In 1834, when controlled by Chile it worked as deposit for the whole system. San Luis de Alba Fort (not shown in the map) San Luis de Alba Fort is located in the shores Cruces River north ...
Late 18th-century map of the Valdivian Fort System made by Antonio Duce.. The Capture of Valdivia (Spanish: Toma de Valdivia) was a battle in the Chilean War of Independence between Royalist forces commanded by Colonel Manuel Montoya and Fausto del Hoyo and the Patriot forces under the command of Thomas Cochrane and Jorge Beauchef, held on 3 and 4 February 1820.
Colonial fortifications in Chile (26 P) ... Spanish forts in the United States (3 C, 31 P) V. Spanish colonial fortifications in Venezuela (7 P)
As consequence of the Seven Years' War the Valdivian Fort System, a Spanish defensive complex in southern Chile, was updated and reinforced from 1764 onwards. Other vulnerable localities of colonial Chile such as Chiloé Archipelago, Concepción, Juan Fernández Islands and Valparaíso were also made ready for an eventual English attack. [8] [17]
In Chilean historiography, Colonial Chile (Spanish: La colonia) is the period from 1600 to 1810, ... The Spanish did also establish the forts of Arauco, ...
Fuerte Bulnes is a Chilean fort located by the Strait of Magellan, 62 km south of Punta Arenas. It was founded in 1843 on a rocky hill at Punta Santa Ana, and named after President Manuel Bulnes Prieto. The fort was built to further the president's colonization policies in Southern Chile and protect the Strait of Magellan.
Ruins of Castle of Chinchón resembling Spanish colonial presidios. A presidio (jail, fortification) [1] was a fortified base established by the Spanish Empire mainly between the 16th and 18th centuries in areas under their control or influence.