The Standard guide to StAugustine and Fort MarionPractical information for tourists, descriptions of all points of interests; and an historical summary . 50 The Standard Guide. Shortly after coming into the possession of the United States, theFort was named Fort Marion, in honor of the famous Revolutionarypartisan, General Francis Marion. The Fort is built of coquina, which in its day was considered avery excellent material for this purpose, since cannon balls wouldsink into the wall without shattering it as they would harder the sea front of the southwest bastion are a number of crev
The Standard guide to StAugustine and Fort MarionPractical information for tourists, descriptions of all points of interests; and an historical summary . 50 The Standard Guide. Shortly after coming into the possession of the United States, theFort was named Fort Marion, in honor of the famous Revolutionarypartisan, General Francis Marion. The Fort is built of coquina, which in its day was considered avery excellent material for this purpose, since cannon balls wouldsink into the wall without shattering it as they would harder the sea front of the southwest bastion are a number of creviceswhich, according to local tradition, were caused by British cannonballs from the opposite shore. In those days of crude weapons, thecoquina bastions were capable of withstanding a much harder attackthan Oglethorpes; but the art of war has changed since that time,and Fort Marions coquina would succumb to artillery of the present. The Fort has been dismantled. A few antiquated and long-silent cannon are preserved as suggestions of the warlike char-acter of the surroundings, and here and there the rusted throat ofa half buried gun breaks the surf
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