Fort San Carlos
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Fort San Carlos was a military structure built in 1816 to defend the Spanish colonial town of Fernandina, Florida, now called Old Town, which occupied a peninsula on the northern end of Amelia Island. The fort, a lunette fortification, stood on the southwest side of the town next to the harbor, on a bluff overlooking the Amelia River. It was made of wood and earthworks, backed with a wooden palisade on the east side, and armed with an eight or ten gun battery. Two blockhouses protected access by land on the south, while the village was surrounded with military pickets. An 1821 map of Fernandina shows that the street plan, laid out in 1811 in a grid pattern by the newly appointed Surveyor General of Spanish East Florida, George J. F. Clarke, today preserves nearly the same layout as that of 1821. The fort occupied the area bounded by the streets Calle de Estrada, Calle de White, and Calle de Someruelos. The structure itself has disappeared and only traces remain in what is now Fernandina Plaza Historic State Park.
1816 — 1821
Wikidata
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Location: 30.6887, -81.4569, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
4 places
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Battle of Fort Peter ⓘ
war of 1812 battle -
Fort Clinch ⓘ
place in Florida listed on National Register of historic Places
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Fort San Carlos ⓘ
19th-century Spanish fort in North America -
St. Marys Submarine Museum ⓘ
museum in St. Marys, Georgia, USA
| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
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| event | armed conflict | 1815 | Battle of Fort Peter | United States, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| object | watercraft | USS George Bancroft | ballistic missile submarine, Benjamin Franklin-class submarine | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Fort Clinch | fort | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | 1816 | Fort San Carlos | fort | Wikidata |
| site | museum | St. Marys Submarine Museum | military museum | Wikidata | |