Saturday, April 28, 2012
Castillo de San Marcos
While organizing my old photos I came across 2007 pictures from a visit to Castillo de San Marcos, a fort in St. Augustine, Florida. The fortress was built by the Spanish as part of the time they occupied Florida.
The fortress is of the typical "bastion" type. I am not an expert in this era so I relied on wikipedia which had a nice description. Apparently the grades were built so that cannon would be more effective aiming downward as attackers neared the fortress.
Here is a view of one of the cannon pointed out towards the ocean from which attackers may arrive.
This is a view of the fort itself with the courtyard in the middle.
There were many cannons at the fort. The cannons weren't all from that fort; some were donated from Spain or other museums. This is a four-pounder.
Here is a 16 inch mortar.
Note the fine detailing on these cannon. Very interesting.
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One of my military history courses in kollej made us design our own bastion defenses. It was pretty cool because the other students in the class were the ones that "graded" your project - they were to take apart your defenses and show where they were weak, poor sight lines, etc. Interesting stuff.
Cool detailing on that cannon.
Over at Chicago Boyz someone translates the cool etchings on the cannon (I think)
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