Resumen de Military Engineers and the Use of Cartography in the Urban Representation of the Spanish Florida: The City of Saint Augustine (1565–1788)
Jorge Llopis Verdú, Ana Torres Barchino, Juan Serra Lluch
The city of San Agustín in Spanish Florida represents a unique case that allows us to know the uses and habits of Spanish and British engineers in the Overseas colonies throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, given its belonging to both Empires throughout weather. From the arrival in 1565 of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés to Florida and the subsequent founding of the city, until 1821, in which sovereignty was transferred to the United States, the city was the object of an intense cartographic activity given its character as a border city, frequently subjected to military tensions that required a continuous definition of its territorial limits and defenses. As a result of all this, an abundant cartographic fund, both territorial and urban, is conserved in Spanish, English, French and American archives, the work of engineers as well-reviewed as Antonio de Arredondo, Pablo Castelló. Joseph Elixio de la Puente, Pedro Díez Berrio, or Mariano de la Rocque on the Hispanic side, as well as William Brasier, James Moncrief and Thomas Jefferys on the English side, which allows us to know and compare the graphic uses of the Spanish and British engineers of the epoch.
