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==British occupation==
===City plan===
In [[1764]], British civil engineer [[Elias Durnford]] surveyed the town and laid out a street grid which remains mostly preserved to the present day. British Pensacola centered on a large public space which included modern-day [[Plaza Ferdinand VII]], [[Seville Square]] and the space between the two (the area which today lies between [[Palafox Street|Palafox]] and [[Alcaniz Street]]s and south of [[Government Street]]). The water line at that time was located approximately where [[Main Street]] lies today. Within the public space was a large fort.
===British placenames===
The British named a variety of geographical places, including streets. Most of these names do not survive to the present, as the Spanish and Americans who subsequently occupied Pensacola changed many of the names.
{| class="wikitable"
!British placename
!Contemporary placename
|-
|Charlotte Street
|[[Alcaniz Street]]
|-
|Deer Point
|''[[Fair Point]]''
|-
|East Point
|''[[Deer Point]]''
|-
|English Point
|''[[Emanuel Point]]''
|-
|[[Gage Hill]]
|''Gage Hill'' or ''[[North Hill]]''. The Spanish renamed Gage Hill as ''Mount Miguel'' when they took control in [[1781]]. Gage Hill has also occasionally been called ''Palafox Hill''.
|-
|Sandy Point
|''[[Town Point]]''
|}
==Citizens==
