Pirates in St. Augustine?

We went into St Augustine for the day last Saturday.

Little did we know that the pirates had come to town! Did you know that in 1668 the English buccaneer Robert Searle attacked St. Augustine? The raid killed approximately 60 people and the buccaneers threatened to return. The inhabitants were so fearful of a repeat that they petitioned the Spanish Crown for funds to build a more solid masonry fort. Four years after the raid, construction was begun on the Castillo San Marcos, which stands to this date as the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States.