On March 13 Palmer retired from Florida. He had defeated the Indians at Nombre de Dios, but now that they had taken refuge in the fort and refused to come out to engage his men, he had no other choice than to return to Charleston. With only 300 men and a minimum of supplies, he could not hope to lay siege to San Marcos. As a grim reminder of his visit, Palmer burned Nombre de Dios, destroyed the chapel there, and carried off the few altar ornaments and statues that adorned the church. [Note 91: gov of Cuba to king 8/27/1728] Palmer thus avenged the insults suffered by the Carolinians at the hands of the Yamasees. He had struck terror among the Spanish Indians and clearly demonstrated the vulnerability of their position. Palmer had shown the Yamasees that their Spanish protectors could not defend the Indian villages lying in the very shadow of the Florida capital. His raid also marked the end of an era. It was the last major clash in the Southeast between the English and Spaniards before the founding of Georgia in 1733, which put the “debatable land” under English control. For the governor of Florida the settlement of Georgia presented even greater defensive problems, as the English moved ever closer to the focus of Spanish power in the Southeast. (Tepaske GSF)