Saint Augustine (Fla)--History

During the twenty-one year British occupation of Florida from 1763 to 1784, the city of St. Augustine served as a Loyalist outpost during the American Revolutionary War. The British repaired the city's Spanish defenses and constructed seven redoubts outside the city walls. Plans were made to connect these redoubts with defensive walls but were not carried out. Several of the seven British redoubts were constructed on or near older redoubts built by the Spanish, as seen on maps of the period. Maps of the period are the key to locating the redoubts today. Supplementing the maps are the various documents in the Archives of the Indies in Seville, the Public Records Office in London, and the National Archives in Washington, D.C. This research project identifies the locations of the British Redoubts and provides historical and archaeological interpretations of these defensive works within the totality of the fortifications of St. Augustine.