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Plan of Nogales on the Mississippi River c. 1795 showing Fort Nogales Fort near Walnut hills c. 1800 Fort McHenry c. 1800 in the American Natchez District. Fort Nogales was a 18th-century Spanish colonial fort in West Florida, at the confluence of the Yazoo River and the Mississippi River. [1]
Established in May 1795, the fort was erected with a garrison of 150 men to defend Spanish claims of the territory at the Fourth Chickasaw Bluff. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Although Spain renounced its claim to the area in Pinckney's Treaty in 1795, it occupied the fort until either 1797 or 1798, when the Spanish dismantled the fort and established Fort ...
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.
Included are inscriptions of the Spanish explorers and settlers of the American Southwest. Fort Matanzas National Monument (St. Augustine, Florida) This Spanish fort was built (1740–1742) to warn St. Augustine of British or other enemy approach from the south. Gulf Islands National Seashore Bateria de San Antonio (Gulf Breeze, Florida)
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 ...
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Hawaiian monk seals grow to be 6-7 feet long, weigh 400-600 pounds, and can live more than 30 years. Males and females are generally the same size — the only way to tell them apart is to look at ...
El Castillo de Monterey (Spanish for "The Castle of Monterey") was a fortification in Monterey, California, founded in 1792 by the Spanish Empire. The fort was constructed to protect the Monterey port and the Presidio of Monterey from invaders. [2] The site was officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 23, 1971.