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Florida received and repaid a loan for a stone fort that never got built
Source: Situado and Sabana #82
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In 1595... Philip II ordered the Mexico City treasury to advance 10,000 ducats to Florida to construct a stone fort during a period of exceptional threat from English corsairs. The loan was duly made and paid back over the next 10 years by deductions of 1000 ducats a year from the situado; yet no stone fort materialized. By the time the money arrived, the corsair threat had diminished and greater needs had arisen. Governor Mendez Canzo used the 10,000 ducats to rebuild the presidio, which had suffered a flood and a fire, and to reestablish Spanish presence in Mocamo and Guale after the 1597 Guale rebellion. (Bushnell SS)
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