Siege of St. Augustine (1702)
The siege of St. Augustine occurred in Queen Anne's War during November and December 1702. It was conducted by English colonists from the Province of Carolina and their Indian allies, under the command of governor of Carolina James Moore, against the Spanish colonial fortress of Castillo de San Marcos at St. Augustine, in Spanish Florida.
View from the castillo over the harbor area
Pierre LeMoyne d'Iberville planned a 1706 expedition against Carolina
Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought in North America involving the colonial empires of Great Britain, France, and Spain; it took place during the reign of Anne, Queen of Great Britain. In the United States, it is regarded as a standalone conflict under this name. Elsewhere it is usually viewed as the American theater of the War of the Spanish Succession. It is also known as the Third Indian War. In France it was known as the Second Intercolonial War.
Stone fortifications of Port Royal, Acadia, 1702. Few settlements had stone fortification at the start of the war.
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville sought to establish a relationship with native people in the Mississippi watershed as a result of the last war with England.
New French raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, in February 1704
Hendrick Tejonihokarawa, a Mohawk chief, was successful in gaining support from Anne, Queen of Great Britain, to launch an expedition to take Quebec City.
