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<p>Southeastern North America was a violent region during the early colonial period, i.e., up to 1763. Long-term research in Spanish West Florida has documented 11 fortifications that are described and analyzed as a case study; they are then integrated into the larger context of the 93 individual forts built at 70 different places in the Southeast. An overview of these fortifications is presented by type: towns, presidios/forts, outposts/fortified trading posts, and fortified missions. Patterns of fort construction and design are then identified, and the trends in East and West Florida are discussed and compared. The Florida forts are then placed into the setting of European rivalry in the Southeast, as Britain and France pushed Spain into the Florida peninsula and, with their commercial capitalist economies, took the interior and coasts of the region.</p>

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Fortifications in Spanish West Florida and the Colonial Southeast (1562–1763)

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    2025年6月1日

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  • Judith A. Bense

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Southeastern North America was a violent region during the early colonial period, i.e., up to 1763. Long-term research in Spanish West Florida has documented 11 fortifications that are described and analyzed as a case study; they are then integrated into the larger context of the 93 individual forts built at 70 different places in the Southeast. An overview of these fortifications is presented by type: towns, presidios/forts, outposts/fortified trading posts, and fortified missions. Patterns of fort construction and design are then identified, and the trends in East and West Florida are discussed and compared. The Florida forts are then placed into the setting of European rivalry in the Southeast, as Britain and France pushed Spain into the Florida peninsula and, with their commercial capitalist economies, took the interior and coasts of the region.