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Gonzalez and other artillerymen exchanged fire with Oglethorpe
Source: The Oldest City #264
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Gonzalezes’ bio, by Jean Parker Waterbury For thirty days of siege, in the summer heat, the townspeople and garrison held out. To answer Oglethorpe’s bombardment, Montiano’s forces worked the big guns nights and day; for three weeks Gonzalez, with the other artillerymen, watched British mortar shells streak across the bay toward the fortress and responded with their own not inconsiderable firepower. The heavy firing, Spanish and English, meant sleepless nights for the St. Augustinians; rapidly dwindling food supplies meant hungry days.
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