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ngain attacked and plundered biy Csipt. Davis, at the head of the buccaneers; 

 at which time the fort is Taid to have been an odlagon, with a round tov/cr 

 at each angle, in which the foldiers kept guard. The next attack of it was 

 - in 1702 by the Englifi and Indians of Carolina^ under Col. Moor their go- 

 vernor ; he ruined the vilhsges and farms in the open country, and beficged 

 this town three months ; but on approach of fome Spanijh veifels to its re-- 

 lief, he ralfed the fiege with precipitation, and marched to Charles Town, 300 

 miles by land, lea'ving the fnip and fiiores he brought with him to the ene- 

 my. The laft fiege of this place was by Gen. Oglethorpe m 1740, with 

 four men. of war and tranfj^orts from Charles Toivn with troops to aHift ip 

 the fiege. Having rendezvoufed near the mouth of Saint yohn's river, and 

 hc'in^ ]'jinQd by th& Chero/kee I/7dians on the 9th of May, he marched 20 

 miles to fort Diego, which he took, and made the garrifon prifoners of war, 

 the Spaniards, dlfo abandoned {ort"Moo/d, or Negro fort, (23 miles nearer to 

 Sant Aagtifline) to the general, who afterwards encamped Vv^ith his army on 

 S'ant Anajlajia ifland, having left a fmall part of his forces on the continent 

 to garrifon fort Negro, and alarm the Spaniards, yune i the- Spaniards made . 

 a fally from the caftle of Sanf Ai/guJIine, ■atta.cked and defeated the garrifon at 

 • fort Negrv, killed colonel Palmer, the commander, and took many of them 

 -prifoners. After this the Spcnit^rds received a fupply of provifions, 

 from Cul^a, tliat were conveyed up the Matanzas, and landed to the fouth 

 of the town where the general had no battery to annoy or force to intercept 

 them. The befiegers bombarded both the caftle and town ; but their artillery 

 being planted at too great a diflrance to do any material execution, which in- 

 convenience was caufed by the river, m.orafies, and other obftrutflions, and the 

 near approach of bad weather obliging the men of war to return to fea, the 

 liege was raifed about the' 4th of July ; it appearing very plain that 200 fea- 

 men, 400 foldiers, and 300 Indians, which was the whole number employed 

 in the expedition, was a force too weak to fubduc 1000 Spaniards, fecured 

 by a caftle, ftrengthened by the SpafiiJJ^ governor, who had early intelli- 

 gence of the intended vifit. Thus were the high expectations blafted that 

 had been raifed from this important undertaking, which, if it had fucceed- 

 _ed, mull: have been attended with extraordinary advantages to the EnglifD, 



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