How to Survive in the Roanoke Colony

Chapter 244: True Knights (1)

San Jose.

A colonial stronghold located at the western edge of Florida.

It wasn’t a particularly large city. Nor was it an especially important one.

It was just one of many strongholds hastily built in Florida to check the Virginia community and England, a rather ordinary place that in the original history would have been established about 100 years later.

The fate of this small village, where about 200 to 300 people lived, changed during the recent “slave rebellion.”

It was around the time when news of San Agustin’s fall spread, the rebellion intensified, and the strongholds that Spaniards had built throughout Florida began to collapse.

Spanish people from northwestern Florida fled here in large numbers amid the madness of the rebellion.

No, it wasn’t limited to the northwest. Like a rolling snowball, more and more slave owners fled from various parts of Florida to places where other slave owners had already fled.

As a result of thousands of colonists flooding in, this place became one of the largest settlements in the Viceroyalty of Nueva España.

Of course, in reality, it was merely a gathering place for fleeing slave owners.

“Look, San Jose is visible!”

“Prepare to land.”

But even such a refugee gathering place was a very precious stronghold for the current Spanish army.

The last city of Spain’s Florida colony to maintain loyalty, and a good place to use as a rear base when reconquering Florida in the future.

It was no coincidence that about 2,000 Spanish troops arrived at this place to suppress the slave rebellion.

Over the past decade, roads meticulously built in the Spanish colony spread densely around San Agustin.

Using this place as a bridgehead, recapturing nearby Indians, and then sweeping away nearby settlements would begin the full-scale suppression of the rebellion.