He weaved along the sidewalk, passed the bastion of La Punta Castle, and rested on a knee-high wall with a battery of smoothbore cannons behind him. Notice how Castillo de San Salvador de la Punta is directly across the water from El Morro. Beginning in 1630, an 820-foot boom chain was strung between the two forts to prevent enemy ships from entering the harbor. This proximity was also the demise of La Punta. During the Battle of Havana in 1762, the British first captured El Morro. Then they unleashed over 50 cannons at La Punta. The meager Cuban battery of 19 smoothbores was no match. Castillo de San Salvador de la Punta surrendered in a single day.
