Category: History - American
It all began at a little bay on the east coast of Florida during September of 1565. Two large galleons rode at anchor outside the harbor entrance, while three smaller craft with sails furled and pennants flying from each masthead were moored within. The ships were a part of th...
It all began at a little bay on the east coast of Florida during September of 1565. Two large galleons rode at anchor outside the harbor entrance, while three smaller craft with...
2. CHAPTER IIIt was the following spring of 1575 before the news of Menendez' death reached Florida. St. Augustine, now ten years old, had lost not only its founder and a resourceful leader,...
3. CHAPTER IIISt. Augustine remained the sole European settlement in what is now the continental United States for a period of forty-two years. About the time of its attack by Drake in 1586 i...
4. CHAPTER IVWhile St. Augustine lived on in apparent security, ominous events were taking place in the world outside. England and France fought the Seven Years' War, toward the end of which...
5. CHAPTER VWhen they reoccupied Florida in 1784, the Spaniards had changed but little during their twenty-year absence from the scene. With their return St. Augustine reverted to its forme...
6. CHAPTER VISt. Augustine was at last a part of the United States. Most of its Spanish residents bid the narrow streets farewell. The Minorcans, now firmly domiciled here, made up the major...