Wars Within Wars - Assault on Florida

American Political History · Jul 23, 2022 · 19m

In 1702 the governor of Carolina took an army south to seize the oldest city in America — and came home in disgrace, his ships burned, his name ruined, beaten by a fort made of seashell. Two years later James Moore went back to Spanish Florida with fifty Carolinians, a thousand Creek warriors, and a different kind of war in mind. This episode follows the assault on Florida: the failed siege of St. Augustine and the slaving raid that came after it — the morning at the mission town of Ayubale, where a Franciscan held a mud-walled church for nine hours against muskets, and what the column did…