Source: WTL photographs© (2007 and 2008).
Images: Six images of the Castillo de San Marcos, five of which are viewed from the Matanzas Inlet. The inner courtyard (patio) housed people from the town when San Agustín was besieged, principally by English pirates and slave plantation militias in South Carolina and, later, Georgia. The fortress's coquina rock walls absorbed enemy cannonballs. Due in part to the fortress's impregnability and to San Agustín's black militias, especially the one at Fort Mose (see: => Fort Mose), the city never fell to enemy attack.
Latin American humanities: Spanish coastal colonial military architecture.
Humanities topics: Imagine arriving in a Spanish sailing ship before the town and the fortress were built. Then imagine arriving as an immigrant, a merchant, a visitor, or an enemy. What are you imagining?