The Siege of St. Augustine in 1702

A richly detailed and exhaustively researched account of the 1702 siege of the Spanish fortress of St. Augustine by British and local forces. “In 1670 a new English colony had come into existence on the North American continent. Its first colonists came from England and Barbados and called their new home Carolina. They established their towns and plantations in territory claimed exclusively by Spain as part of Florida. Although Spanish hegemony in the Carolina land was hardly perceivable since t