The invasion of Guale in 1661 represented the first major assault on the Georgia coastal missions that directly resulted from the English colonial presence to the north.(16) Note 16. At least two later military service records indicate a date of 1660 for one Chichimeco raid on Guale, although these were probably references to the 1661 raid (particularly since both of these citations were made decades after the fact, and could easily be mistranscriptions or the result of erroneous recollections). A summary of the military service of Captain Matheo Luis de Florencia indicated that in 1660, "he helped recover [recuperar] a village of the province of Guale, where the Chichimeco Indians had fortified themselves, until forcing them out of it, and the Governor left him as head and leader of the infantry with which he garrisoned the said province" (Florencia, 1682). Similarly, Juan Sanchez de Uriza certified in 1675 that Diego Diaz Mexia participated in the 1660 expedition when he (Sanchez de Uriza) was named "as head of the infantry that were dispatched to the province of Guale by order of Governor and Captain General Don Alonso de Aranguiz y Cotes in order to resist the invasion that the Chichimeco enemy made in those provinces." Since Sanchez de Uriza is known to have led the retaliation force sent against the Chichimeco in 1661, this last reference is almost certainly an erroneous date. It also marked the first step in a series of relocations that would ultimately leave the Georgia coast largely vacant. The destruction and abandonment of Mission Santo Domingo de Talaje at the mouth of the Altamaha River was followed by the reestablishment of the mission on nearby St. Simons Island under another name, Santo Domingo de Asajo, probably located at Cannons Point on the northern end of the island. Although this southernmost Guale mission was now situated on the same island as the northernmost Mocama mission, San Buenaventura de Guadalquini, the island location provided far greater security from raids originating in the interior, and probably easier access by boat. Significantly, the raid on Guale was evidently only one of the least successful of a series of raids carried out by the Chichimeco during the early 1660s, most of which occurred deep in the interior of modern Georgia, beyond the scope of Spanish documentation. A year after the Guale assault, Governor Aranguiz y Cotes (1662a) noted regarding the Chichimeco that "had I not rushed to resist their design, they might have laid waste to it [the province of Guale], as notice has been had from other [provinces] of pagan Indians who came fleeing from them." If the Chichimeco had instilled fear in the mission province of Guale, they seem to have inspired true terror among the provinces of unconverted Indians still living in the interior, who may well have been subjected to even greater depredations without the assistance of the Spanish infantry. The old province of Tama, along with others along the upper Oconee River of northeastern Georgia and other regions, was rapidly laid waste, and the Spanish missions would soon feel the full impact of the Chichimeco raids.