. A guide to Florida for tourists, sportsmen and settlers . fort was carried on. In 1648, al-most a century after its foundation, St. Augus-tine is said to have had three hundred house-holders, besides a monastery of fifty Franciscans,and the garrison. In 1665 St. Augustine wasagain captured and sacked by an English free-booter, Captain Davis. The fort, however, safelyprotected the inhabitants and the garrison,though it offered no resistance to the 1700 the first sea wall was being con-structed ; remains of this still exist in Bay Street. During the early part of the eighteenth c
. A guide to Florida for tourists, sportsmen and settlers . fort was carried on. In 1648, al-most a century after its foundation, St. Augus-tine is said to have had three hundred house-holders, besides a monastery of fifty Franciscans,and the garrison. In 1665 St. Augustine wasagain captured and sacked by an English free-booter, Captain Davis. The fort, however, safelyprotected the inhabitants and the garrison,though it offered no resistance to the 1700 the first sea wall was being con-structed ; remains of this still exist in Bay Street. During the early part of the eighteenth cen-tury the Spanish colony came into conflict withthe English settlements along the coast. In 1702Governor Moore of South Carolina made a suc-cessful descent upon the town and carried awaymuch booty. In 1740 a considerable expeditionunder Governor Oglethorpe of Georgia invadedFlorida and laid siege to St. Augustine for twentydays. But the fort was now strong and well de-fended. The invaders ultimately retired. St. Augustine had by this time grown to over. 3 3< c75
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