"A Spanish Colonial fort" Topic

I just posted a series of photos of a small Spanish Colonial era (1690-1800) fort on my blog. link

Thank you very much.

Excellent info. Thank you for the pics.

Thank you! The exploded view is particularly interesting.

An officer, four infantry, and two gunners. Wonder what the rotation was, if there was one.

Very useful. Thanks for posting it.

Is this the Fort at St. Augustine? Nice pics and details.

It isn't the main St. Augustine fort, but is instead one built nearby to cover one of the approaches to the town.

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Way cool, thanks for sharing. :-)

Very interesting. Many thanks.

That's a great post. Do you happen to know how many cannon were there and the garrison size? My guess is 10-15 men with a couple cannons.

Over the years that I have been visiting there have been between two and four cannon on display. There is room for three firing off the face and one on the flank.

The fort faces roughly south, which is the direction any enemy would be approaching from, those enemies would pass by on one side only as the other was covered by a swamp.

My guess is that the garrison was quite small, normally a few men and an officer. In times of war I would think that the garrison would be increased to properly serve the cannon, topping out at about sixteen to twenty men.

I have tons of pictures of the Castillo de San Marcos that I could post if people are interested. It is much more impressive. A proper baationed fort built to the best European standards.

There is a link to my visit to Fort Wilkins in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, on an old entry in my blog here; link

I will try to get around to posting the other photos of forts as soon as possible.

There should be at least 5 men per gun, plus infantry support.