Source: The Governorship of Spanish Florida (ID122)
Author: TePaske, John J. (ID86)
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1718-10-01 - 1718-10-31
Primo established a small garrison on St. Joseph's Bay
Primo dutifully detached 12 men from his force in Apalache and late in 1718 began fortifying Saint Joseph’s. [Note 66: Consejo 1/18/1719] With help from Pensacola and “Saint Augustine, the cavalry captain managed to maintain a precarious foothold on Saint Joseph’s Bay, but aid was at best sporadic. Lack of supplies and reinforcements, illness, desertion, and Primo’s departure for New Spain forced the abandonment of the tiny stockade in 1723...
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