Siege of St. Augustine (1740)

For the siege during Queen Anne's War, see Siege of St. Augustine (1702).
Siege of St. Augustine
Part of the War of Jenkins' Ear

Castillo de San Marcos
Date13 June–20 July 1740
Location
St. Augustine, Spanish Florida
Result Spanish victory
Belligerents
 Great Britain Spain Spain
Commanders and leaders
Gen. James Oglethorpe
Ahaya Secoffee
Cdre. Pearce		 Governor Manuel de Montiano
Strength
1,000 infantry
(Oglethorpe's Regiment, Georgia Provincials, South Carolina Provincials.)
900 sailors
1,200 warriors[1][2]
56 cannons
5 frigates
3 sloops[3]		 750 infantry
50 cannons
1 fort
6 small ships
Casualties and losses
122 killed
16 captured
14 deserted[4]
56 artillery pieces captured
1 schooner captured		 Unknown

The siege of St. Augustine was a military engagement that took place during June–July 1740. It involved a British attack on the city of St. Augustine in Spanish Florida and was a part of the much larger conflict known as the War of Jenkins' Ear.

  1. ^ Accounts vary considerably from 900 to 2,000 with the number of Indians especially at variance from 100 to 1100.
  2. ^ Letter of Governor Montiano to the Governor of Cuba, 28 July 1740
  3. ^ Robert Beatson, Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain, from 1727 to 1783, London, 1804, p. 20
  4. ^ David Marley, Wars of the Americas: a chronology of armed conflict in the New World, 1492 to the present. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-87436-837-6, p. 255