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As it was just two days' sail from St. Augustine, the English settlement and encroachment of English traders into Spanish territory spurred the Spanish in their construction of a fort. [19] Slaves from the Carolina colony began escaping to St Augustine in 1687, where the Spanish agreed to free (and employ) them if they converted to Catholicism.
Spanish Fort is an unincorporated community in north-central Montague County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas , the community had a population of 50 in 2000. History
The Forts of the colonial Spanish Viceroyalty of New Spain in North America, that were in the present day United States. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
San Marcos de Apalache Historic State Park is a Florida State Park in Wakulla County, Florida organized around the historic site of a Spanish colonial fort (known as Fort St. Marks by the English and Americans), which was used by succeeding nations that controlled the area. The Spanish first built wooden buildings and a stockade in the late ...
Fort Matanzas National Monument (Spanish: Fuerte Matanzas) is the site where the Spanish built a fort. It was designated a United States national monument on October 15, 1924. [ 2 ] The monument consists of a 1740 Spanish fort called Fort Matanzas, and about 100 acres (0.4 km 2 ) of salt marsh and barrier islands along the Matanzas River on the ...
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The first small fort here was erected by the French in 1701, before the founding of the city of New Orleans, to protect the important trade route along Bayou St. John. After Louisiana passed to Spanish control, a larger brick fort was constructed at the site of the neglected old French fortification; this was known as San Juan del Bayou ...
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