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Download or read book The British Siege of St Augustine in 1740 written by Ricardo Torres-Reyes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The British Siege of St. Augustine in 1740: Castillo De San Marcos National Monument, Fla This report fulfills the requirements of Resource Study Proposal H-14 for Castillo de San Marcos National Monument. As requested, the study traces the origin of the British attack on St. Augustine in 1740 and ascertains its objective, the strength of the combatants, existing defenses or the besieged town, routes and plans of the besiegers, tac tical dispositions and maneuvering, outcome of the siege and blockade, and reasons for the English failure to conquer Spanish Florida. As far as operations are concerned, we have followed the day-to-day English accounts of this event. These accounts are in the form of numerous letters by British officers, abstracts from journals, and depositions of several key participants, most of them found in the Report of the South Carolina Assembly There is no complete day-to-day account of Spanish Operations because, as they were the besieged, they naturally pursued a passive resistance and just waited for events to happen on the British camps in order to act accordingly. While the British sources are enriched with the different and often conflicting opinions of many land and naval officers, what is known about the Spaniards during the siege comes from the pen of the Spanish governor. Although he wrote numerous letters to the governor of Cuba, on whom he depended for aid, practically nothing is said in them about the drama that took place inside the walls of the besieged Castillo. This kind of human interest information is undoubtedly found in the voluminous papers dealing with the residencia (administrative review) of the Spanish governor, not available for this report. Outside of the above limitation of sources, the study that follows covers the subject of the siege as exhaustively as was possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book A Joint Opportunity Gone Awry The 1740 Siege of St Augustine written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1740 strategic Siege of St. Augustine, Florida offers an excellent historical example of a flawed joint operation. Although it occurred in colonial North America over two centuries ago, the difficulties the British encountered in this joint operation can still provide germane insights for today's operational planner. Naval power played a key role in Britain's eventual decision to declare war on Spain. Britain possessed over 120 ships of the line while Spain could only assemble forty. Such an overmatch in British sea power was tempered in the knowledge that should France align with Spain, an additional fifty ships of the line and a large land army could enter into the struggle. Britain's administration realistically understood that facing Spain or France on the continent with her small army was ludicrous. However, a naval war would be an entirely different matter. Spain's New World colonies were at the end of a vulnerable line of communication (LOC) and should Britain muster sufficient military forces, then the seizure of Spain's most important ports would be possible through joint military operations. With control of the ports and markets, Britain would garner considerable commercial and military riches at Spain's expense. General James Oglethorpe, founder of the British colony of Georgia and semi-professional soldier, was able to convince the South Carolina Legislature and the Royal Navy Acting Commodore, Captain Vincent Pearce, (the on station naval commander), to assist him in capturing the Castillo de San Marcos at St. Augustine. If the British were successful, then all of Florida might become a British possession and dramatically change the political stage of North America Oglethorpe did not succeed in taking St. Augustine for a variety of reasons. One of the causes cited for the joint force's failure was the alleged inaction or malingering of the naval.
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Download or read book The St Augustine Expedition of 1740 written by South Carolina. Assembly. Committee, to enquire into the causes of the disappointment of success, in the expedition against St. Augustine and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Siege of St Augustine in 1702 written by Charles W. Arnade and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some 1,400 townspeople, 323 soldiers and 150 cats spent 51 days together in the Castillo de San Marcos during the English siege of St. Augustine in 1702. The notation of the 150 cats turned up in the research on the siege done 43 years ago by Charles W. Arnade, a Florida historian with deep roots into the conflict.
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