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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lauragarnet, post: 189230, member: 105&quot;]Good info from a couple of old post cards...</p><p><img src="https://www.cardcow.com/images/set483/card00585_fr.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><a href="https://www.cardcow.com/409816/coat-arms-saint-augustine-florida-banners-pendants/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cardcow.com/409816/coat-arms-saint-augustine-florida-banners-pendants/" rel="nofollow">CardCow.com Coat of Arms- Saint Augustine, Florida</a></p><p>The above heraldic emblem is a copy of the ancient coat of arms carved over a doorway at <b>Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Fla.</b> The same heraldic device was on Columbus&#039; banner when he landed in the new world. <b>It comprises the arms of Castile (castle) and Leon (lion rampant), two kingdoms made one by the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella. Around the outside is the grand cordon of the Golden Fleece, a chain of alternate steels and flints, striking fire, with the Fleece suspended beneath</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.floridamemory.com/fpc/postcard/PC07333.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><a href="https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/259165" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/259165" rel="nofollow">(State Archives of Florida) </a></p><p>Saint Augustine Chronology and Coat of Arms.</p><p>&quot;Florida discovered by Ponce de Leon, 1513.</p><p>St. Augustine founded by Menendez, 1565.</p><p>Plundered and burned by Sir Francis Drake, 1586.</p><p>Post Office, Formerly Spanish Governor&#039;s Mansion. Built 1598.</p><p>St. Augustine burned by John Davis, a pirate, 1665.</p><p>Wooden part of town burned by Governor Moore of South Carolina, 1702.</p><p>City Gates, built 1702-27.</p><p>Besieged by Oglethorpe, governor of Georgia, 1740.</p><p>Fort Marion, begun 1586, completed 1756.</p><p>Florida ceded to Great Britain in exchange for Cuba, 1762.</p><p>Re-ceded to Spain in exchange for Bahama Islands, 1784.</p><p>Old Cathedral, built in 1793-97; partly re-built after fire in 1887.</p><p>Spanish Monument, in Plaza, erected in 1812.</p><p>Florida ceded to U.S. for five million dollars, 1821.</p><p>Sea Wall, built 1835-37.</p><p>Old Slave Market, built in 1840.</p><p>St. Augustine, Florida, Oldest City in the United States Under Three Flags&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Where did you find it?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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