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Following the merger of Panama with Columbia, the fort was used as a prison. Then it was the Post Office for delivery of mail from Britain to Latin America. At Chagres town and below the fort and on the west bank of the Chagres River it was a haven for the adventurers of the 1849 California Gold Rush. With the advent of the railroad in 1850 ...
Political evolution of Central America and the Caribbean 1700 to present. This is a timeline of the territorial evolution of the Caribbean and nearby areas of North, Central, and South America, listing each change to the internal and external borders of the various countries that make up the region.
This category includes articles on forts located in the current area of the United States that were constructed during colonial times by various empires. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
Early colonial defense works constructed before the 19th century were primarily small coastal batteries built of stone having anywhere from two to ten guns. Some of these early forts and batteries are the oldest standing masonry forts in the new world. Later forts constructed by the royal engineers were much larger and more complex. Fort St ...
Forts of the first and second systems were generally earthwork star forts with some masonry reinforcement, mounting one tier of cannon, usually on the roof of the fort or behind low earthworks. Along with new forts, a few masonry forts of the colonial period were rebuilt under the first system, which was built from 1794 through 1801. [1]
The capture of the fortress of San Juan de Ulúa and the city of Veracruz (1568) by John Hawkins, and Drake's series of attacks through the Caribbean between 1585 and 1586, during which he captured Santo Domingo and Cartagena, prompted Philip II to send the renowned Italian engineer Juan Bautista Antonelli to design modern fortifications at San ...
The Old Fort of Nassau, also known as Fort Nassau, was a fort in Nassau, Bahamas, first built in 1697. The fort lasted for nearly two hundred years with a rich legacy of history until it was finally demolished in 1897. [1] It was located on the north side of Marlborough Street, on the site of the current British Colonial Hilton Nassau. [2]
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.