A Dictionary of American History

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Author: Thomas L. Purvis  | Date: 1995

St Augustine

St Augustine (Fla.) On 8 September 1565, Pedro Menendez de Aviles founded “San Augustin,” the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the US. In 1672 construction began on a moated, stone fortress, Castillo de San Marcos, which was still incomplete when Francis Drake ransacked the town on 7 June 1685. In October 1702, S.C. Governor James Moore looted St Augustine with 800 militia and Indians; he besieged the castle (held by Governor Joseph de Zuniga y Cerda’s 400 troops) until withdrawing to S.C. on 26 December. On 9 March 1728, Colonel John Palmer’s 200 S.C. militia and Indians burned a fortified village of the Yamasee Indians within sight of the castle. Governor Manuel de Montiano’s 1,100 Spanish troops withstood a siege by James Oglethorpe’s 1,300 British and 500 Indians (13 June–4 July 1740). In March 1743, Oglethorpe plundered St Augustine, but could not take the castle for lack of artillery.

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Chicago: Thomas L. Purvis, "St Augustine," A Dictionary of American History in A Dictionary of American History (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Reference, 1995), Original Sources, accessed March 27, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LA9IZQ5UGWNN866.

MLA: Purvis, Thomas L. "St Augustine." A Dictionary of American History, in A Dictionary of American History, Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell Reference, 1995, Original Sources. 27 Mar. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LA9IZQ5UGWNN866.

Harvard: Purvis, TL, 'St Augustine' in A Dictionary of American History. cited in 1995, A Dictionary of American History, Blackwell Reference, Cambridge, Mass.. Original Sources, retrieved 27 March 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LA9IZQ5UGWNN866.