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It had a natural port and they had colonized the area. The fort was for protection.

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The Spanish sailors built a fort around St. Augustine to protect it from attacks by other European powers, particularly the British, who were eager to expand their colonial territories in North America. The fort served as a strategic stronghold for the Spanish to maintain control over their colonial settlement in Florida.

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