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Spanish Colonial fortifications — located in former Spanish colonies. Subcategories. ... Fort of Santa Catalina, Lima; Spanish fortifications in America
Presidio San Agustín del Tucsón was a presidio (colonial Spanish fort) located within Tucson, Arizona, United States.The original fortress was built by Spanish soldiers during the 18th century and was the founding structure of what became the city of Tucson.
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.
The fort was strategically situated at the narrowest point on the river. [2] The Castillo de San Felipe was used by the Spanish for several centuries, during which time it was destroyed and looted several times by pirates. [3] The fort is listed on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List and is a popular regional tourist destination.
They massacred the Portobelo barracks in 1668 and managed to capture numerous Spanish coastal towns and fortifications. On several occasions, buccaneers forces crossed the isthmus, capturing Spanish ships, and captured weakly fortified Pacific ports in Central America, Mexico, and Peru. While the great fortresses of the Caribbean should have ...
Spanish-colonial-era hotshot furnace used to heat cannonballs to shoot at wooden enemy ships. Upon receiving the fort from Spain, the Americans changed its name to Fort Marion. It was named to honor General Francis Marion, an American Revolutionary War hero nicknamed "The Swamp Fox." Structurally, the Americans made few changes to the fort ...
Fort Nogales was a 18th-century Spanish colonial fort in West Florida, at the confluence of the Yazoo River and the Mississippi River. [1] The fort stood at the site of present-day Vicksburg , Warren County , Mississippi, United States.
The Fort System of Valdivia (Spanish: Sistema de fuertes de Valdivia) is a series of Spanish colonial fortifications at Corral Bay, Valdivia and Cruces River established to protect the city of Valdivia, in southern Chile. During the period of Spanish rule (1645–1820), it was one of the biggest systems of fortification in the Americas. [1]