Fort Timeline and Bits
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Fri 3 Feb 2012 23:37
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Castillo de San Marcos Timeline and
Bits
The fort from the
bay
The fort from the city
gates
Dropping the boys off for their cannon
school at nine thirty, the place was tourist
free
We left them in the robing room filling out their consent forms and went
off to bimble
Timeline of the
fort:
1513 Sailing from Puerto Rico,
Spanish claim Florida.
1565 Spanish found St Augustine and
destroy French at Fort Caroline and Matanzas Inlet.
1672 Ground is broken on the 2nd of
October for Castillo de San Marcos.
1695 The curtains walls, bastions,
ravelin and sea wall are finished in August.
1702 War of the Spanish Succession
pits Spain and France against England, Austria and others.
1738 Spanish governor at St Augustine
grants freedom to runaway British slaves. Black families settle in the new town
of Fort Mose.
1740 St Augustine successfully
endures siege by British, Georgian and South Carolinian forces. Spanish attack
and defeat British Highland troops camped at Fort Mose.
1742 Fort Matanzas is built to block
southern approach to St Augustine.
1756 Fort Mose rebuilt in masonry.
Earthworks at Mose extended to complete northernmost defense
1763 Peace of Paris gives Florida to
Great Britain in exchange for La Habana. Fort becomes known as Fort St
Mark.
1783 Peace of Paris reorganises
independence of the U.S. and returns Florida to Spain
1821 Spain cedes Florida to the
U.S.
1825 Castillo de San Marcos renamed
Fort Marion
1924 Fort Marion and Fort Matanzas
are proclaimed national monuments.
1933 Fort Marion and Fort Matanzas
are transferred from the War Department to the National Park
Service.
1935 The National Park Service begins
exclusive administration of both national monuments.
1942 Original name of Castillo de San
Marcos restored.
2012 Bear fires the cannon at
15:30
While Bear was busy with ‘his men’ and the tourists........... ................I went for a turn
around his place
When the boys were finished for the
day we went to look around the gift shop. Had to get fridge
magnets as mementos and something special for Bear as a
keepsake.
Walking back with the
boys, they went over the day events, Bear present in
hand
Steve said
to mark such a momentous day, there was only one thing to do – a pint and a cigar in The Plaza. I think
post-cannon firing Bear has taken on a new
air.
No complaints from
me, especially with a pint of Guinness and Woodchuck Cider to hand. My
cigar skin was Bailey’s flavoured. Marvelous.
Bear with his
special reminder of his unique day. I thought it would come in handy when
his trigger finger (cannot get used to the thumb bit) plays up mid
Pacific
ALL IN ALL A JOY
TO LOOK AT HIS FACE
WHAT A FANTASTIC
EXPERIENCE
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