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 Eventually the fort fell, but not because of the navy, because the army swung around south, bypassing Savannah to attack McAllister first. McAllister fell with very little fighting and the navy advanced to our next stop, Fort Pulaski, which I think of as The Last Fort.
 
-Fort Pulaski was made of brick and withstood an incredible amount of shelling during the war until it met the new rifled cannon. At the moment the day and age of the fort ended. The rifled shell was too accurate and too devastating. The commander of the fort surrendered because the wall was breached and next shot would have hit the magazine killing everyone.
+Fort Pulaski was made of brick and withstood an incredible amount of shelling during the war until it met the new rifled cannon. At the moment the day and age of the fort ended. The rifled shell was too accurate and too devastating. The commander of the fort surrendered before the magazine was hit killing everyone. The rest of the world took notice. Very few forts were built after the shelling of Fort Pulaski.
 
-Fort Frederica, GA
+After Pulaski we moved south again, and it turned extremely cold for a few days, but we managed to find a nice day to explore Fort Frederica, a pre-revolutionary war fort on St. Simon's island. Frederica was the southern most outpost of the English colonies and responsible for holding off the Spanish, who controlled Florida at the time. It did its job under Oglethorpe, twice if I remember correctly, after which the Spanish gave up.
 
-Castillo de San Marcos National Monument at st augustine, FL
+For the kids this one was definitely the highlight thanks to a room full of dress up clothes and games they could play. I was more intregued to see something I'd read about in William Bartram's journals. Bartram passed through in 1774 and it was already in ruins, which makes it kind of amazing that there's anything here at all, but you can still see the stone outlines of most of the buildings in the town.
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+After Georgia we headed down to a place that's been on our list for a long time, but we just never seemed to make it: St. Augustine, FL. : Castillo de San Marcos National Monument at 
 
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