Proof of that has been made clear as archaeologists unearth a rare 1700s British military post in Florida. Recently, the remnants of a British military post were discovered in St. Augustine.

The city of St. Augustine — with its centuries-old buildings and massive stone fort — is an enduring reminder of Spain’s storied history in Florida, going back generations before the United States ...

But for two decades in the 1700s, Great Britain controlled ... City archeologists identified a dry moat last fall of a British redoubt, a fortified military outpost, that had been constructed ...