Siege of St. Augustine (1740)

Siege of St. Augustine
	Part of the War of Jenkins' Ear
	; Castillo de San Marcos
Date	13 June–20 July 1740
Location	St. Augustine, Spanish Florida
Result	Spanish victory
Belligerents
Great Britain	Spain
Commanders and leaders
Gen. James Oglethorpe; Ahaya Secoffee; Cdre. Pearce	Governor Manuel de Montiano
Strength
1,000 infantry; (Oglethorpe's Regiment, Georgia Provincials, South Carolina Provincials.); 900 sailors; 1,200 warriors; 56 cannons; 5 frigates; 3 sloops	750 infantry; 50 cannons; 1 fort; 6 small ships
Casualties and losses
122 killed; 16 captured; 14 deserted; 56 artillery pieces captured; 1 schooner captured	unknown

The siege of St. Augustine was a military engagement that took place during June–July 1740. It involved a British attack on the city of St. Augustine in Spanish Florida and was a part of the much larger conflict known as the War of Jenkins' Ear.

^ Accounts vary considerably from 900 to 2,000 with the number of Indians especially at variance from 100 to 1100.
^ Letter of Governor Montiano to the Governor of Cuba, 28 July 1740
^ Robert Beatson, Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain, from 1727 to 1783, London, 1804, p. 20
^ David Marley, Wars of the Americas: a chronology of armed conflict in the New World, 1492 to the present. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-87436-837-6, p. 255

[1] Accounts vary considerably from 900 to 2,000 with the number of Indians especially at variance from 100 to 1100.

[2] Letter of Governor Montiano to the Governor of Cuba, 28 July 1740

[3] Robert Beatson, Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain, from 1727 to 1783, London, 1804, p. 20

[4] David Marley, Wars of the Americas: a chronology of armed conflict in the New World, 1492 to the present. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-87436-837-6, p. 255

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

v t e War of Jenkins' Ear
Americas Portobello Fort Mosé St. Augustine Anson expedition Cartagena de Indias 1st Santiago de Cuba Panama Georgia Bloody Marsh Gully Hole Creek La Guaira Puerto Cabello Matina 2nd Santiago de Cuba Brunswick Havana Europe 8 April 1740 Fuerteventura Saint Tropez Mataró and Palamós Cape Sicié Villafranca Glorioso campaign 18 March 1748
Part of the War of the Austrian Succession

Siege of St. Augustine (1740)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · View on Wikipedia