More than ten Large Ships lay anchored in the harbor of San Juan, the Firearms on their decks flashing in the sunlight. The batteries on both sides had been built to jut outward, and in the planned Queen Isabella's Castle, two small forts had already been raised. Yet all these defensive arrangements followed the traditions of Europe's ports, facing toward the northern sea.
"Almighty! We placed the focus of our defenses all upon the sea, guarding against a possible Eastern Fleet, guarding against the ships of Portugal… but who could have imagined that the true threat would come from inland, from those native tribes we had previously scorned?"
When several expeditionary army Leaders, brows knit, buckled on their Armor and hurried on foot to the southern side of the strongpoint, the carnage left by the Natives' raid a few days prior once again unfolded before their eyes.
