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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 ...
Fort St. John, British Columbia, a city in British Columbia, Canada Spanish Fort (New Orleans) , also known as Fort St. John, a historic place in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States Fort St. John Group , a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
The fort (present-day city of Natchitoches) was founded by a French Canadian, Louis Juchereau de St. Denis in 1714 while he was traveling to Mexico on a trade mission.When St. Denis reached the village of the Natchitoches Indians on the Red River of the South, he had two huts constructed and left a small French detachment there to guard the stores and trade with the Native Americans.
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]
Spanish Fort (New Orleans) Fort St. Marks; Fort St. Philip This page was last edited on 15 February 2024, at 08:22 (UTC). ...
Laudonnière was left in the small fort on the St. Johns with the women, the sick, and a handful of men. [27] Plano del Fuerte de San Agustin de la Florida. A plan view of one of the earliest Spanish forts built at St. Augustine, with figures of the day and night sentinels, the places where the soldiers fight, cannon, etc.
John Bacon, Trevor Hughes, Christopher Cann, Chris Kenning, Jorge L. Ortiz and Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY Updated October 11, 2024 at 5:15 AM Editor's note: This page reflects the news on Hurricane ...
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.