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Saint augustine. It was built for a very particular reason. Spain decided they had to build the stone fortification in Saint Augustine to ensure their foothold on the florida territory. They were concerned about england encroaching and pushing them out of the area and they saw florida as important in helping to defend their hold on the caribbean and central south america. They started construction in 1672 so you have 23 years worth of construction and the biggest reason for all that time is only about 175 people were working on the project at any one time. All the stone had to be quarried from the island across the bay and shipped across a no mechanical stuff, no metal barges, it was all manmade stuff. Brute force and ignorance played a part and add to that the fact that really they are dealing with very simple machines building these ramps and pulleys and things like that. Spain always wanted to have stone fortifications here. All the way back to the late 16th century. 15 80s or so th

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