Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ST. AUGUSTINE Florida’s Colonial Capital By J. T. VAN CAMPEN [Illustration: Castillo de San Marcos] Third Printing 1971 C. F. Hamblen, Inc. P. O. Box 1568 St. Augustine, Florida Published By THE ST. AUGUSTINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY _Copyright 1959 by J. T. Van Campen_ PRINTED IN U.S.A. Contents I Settlement 3 The Spanish Treasure Fleets 4 The Huguenots Occupy Florida 6 Don Pedro Menéndez 8 The Rival Fleets 10 The Turn of the Tide 12 Capture of Fort Caroline 12 The Victor Returns 14 Fate of the Shipwrecked French 14 Other Difficulties 16 Gunpowder Versus Arrows 16 Menéndez Goes to Spain 18 On the Brink of Failure 18 Death of Menéndez 19 II The Years Accumulate 20 First English Visit 20 Saving of Savage Souls 23 Another Crisis 26 Capital of La Florida 26 III The English Threat 29 A Midnight Raid 29 A Stone Fort at Last 30 Settlement of Pensacola 32 Border Conflict 32 The Shipwrecked Quakers 32 The Castle’s First Test 34 The Capital’s Defenses 35 Palmer’s Raid 36 Oglethorpe’s Siege 37 Further Hostilities 40 IV Under British Rule 43