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The Castillo de San Marcos (Spanish for "St. Mark's Castle") is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States; it is located on the western shore of Matanzas Bay in St. Augustine, Florida.
finishing the built of the Castillo de San Marcos; Later served as royal governor of Cuba José de Zúñiga y la Cerda: 1699 – 1706 later served as governor of Cartagena de Indias: Francisco de Córcoles y Martínez: 1706 – 1716 Pedro de Olivera y Fullana: 1716 Juan de Ayala y Escobar: 1716 – 1718 acting Antonio de Benavides: 1718 – 1734
The Castillo de San Marcos, located on South Castillo Drive, is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States. Made of a limestone called coquina (Spanish for "small shells"), construction began in 1672. In The fort was declared a National Monument in 1924, and after 251 years of continuous military possession, was deactivated in 1933.
Manuel de Cendoya (? – 1673) was a Spanish soldier who served as governor of Spanish Florida (La Florida) from mid-1671 to mid-1673.His administration is remembered primarily for initiating construction of the Castillo de San Marcos, a masonry fortress whose building had first been ordered by Cendoya's predecessor, Governor Francisco de la Guerra y de la Vega, after the destructive raid of ...
Nicolás Suárez Ponce de León II was a Spanish soldier who served as acting governor of Spanish Florida from 1663 to 1664, and from 1673 to 1675. [1] He was appointed to a second term as interim governor after the death of Manuel de Cendoya, and continued construction of the masonry fort, the Castillo de San Marcos, to defend the city against attacks by British colonists from the Province of ...
Spanish plan for Fort San Carlos de Austria, the first fort built (1698) at the site of Pensacola, Florida. Between 1704 and 1707, Ayala fought in the War of the Spanish Succession in Europe. [ 8 ] On January 18, 1708, Ayala was appointed Governor General of Cuba , and worked mainly at Havana, where he was principally concerned with the island ...
To fortify St. Augustine, Spaniards (along with forced labor from the Timucuan, Guale, and Apalache peoples) built the Castillo de San Marcos beginning in 1672. The first stage of construction was completed in 1695. They also built Fort Matanzas just to the south to look for enemies arriving by sea. [34]
The Castillo de San Marcos at St. Augustine was built in the later years of the 17th century, in part because previous English raids demonstrated the inadequacy of wooden fortifications, and to address the threat posed by the founding of Charles Town. [3] The fortress, a fairly conventional star fort, was constructed from soft coquina limestone ...