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Fort King George was rebuilt
Source: The Governorship of Spanish Florida #122
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...within at least six months after the fire an English work party was back on the original site rebuilding the fort. [Note 86: In August, 1725, when Primo and Menendez were in Charleston requesting immediate destruction of Fort King George, it was obvious that they did not know of the fire that had swept through the blockhouse in the winter of 1725. Benavides must have learned of the disaster after the conclusion of this mission, if at all.] This time, however, Benavides chose to ignore the existence of the English threat. He neither sent envoys to Charleston to protest nor dispatched panicky letters to his superiors in Spain concerning the infringement on Spanish territory. Evidently he hoped that the issue would resolve itself, and it did. In the fall of 1727... (Tepaske GSF)
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