Dad used to say as they move it around. Theyre building with very simple machines, ramps, pulleys, ramps. All the way back to the late 16th century 1580s or so they were talking about a way to defend all their Caribbean Holdings because piracy was a big problem. The treasure fleets were being preyed on and the king of spain sent over one of his best engineers, one of his best generals to figure out a way to defend against the piracy. They came up with an idea. Fortifying ten of spains ports. The plan was, puerto rico, havana, all these were going to be fortified. Number ten at the very bottom of the list, st. Augustine. Ignacio daas is the original plan, how theyll use the land in the area. Literally were a onefifth scale model of what was considered a frontier fortification of spain, meaning defending the frontier from the two nations. 16th, 17th, early 18th century, theyll have fortifications all around a city they are laying siege to. Youll see 15 or 16 of these in some places that