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Book Pedro Men  ndez de Avil  s and the Conquest of Florida

Download or read book Pedro Men ndez de Avil s and the Conquest of Florida written by Gonzalo Solís de Merás and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (1519–1574) founded St. Augustine in 1565. His expedition was documented by his brother-in-law, Gonzalo Solís de Merás, who left a detailed and passionate account of the events leading to the establishment of America’s oldest city. Until recently, the only extant version of Solís de Merás’s record was one single manuscript that Eugenio Ruidíaz y Caravia transcribed in 1893, and subsequent editions and translations have always followed Ruidíaz’s text. In 2012, David Arbesú discovered a more complete record: a manuscript including folios lost for centuries and, more important, excluding portions of the 1893 publication based on retellings rather than the original document. In the resulting volume, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and the Conquest of Florida, Arbesú sheds light on principal events missing from the story of St. Augustine’s founding. By consulting the original chronicle, Arbesú provides readers with the definitive bilingual edition of this seminal text.

Book The Enterprise of Florida

Download or read book The Enterprise of Florida written by Eugene Lyon and published by . This book was released on 1983-05-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Men  ndez

Download or read book Men ndez written by Albert C. Manucy and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 1992 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and adventures of the founder of St. Augustine, whose ambition drove him to pursue adventure and conquest.

Book The Geography and Map Division

    Book Details:
  • Author : Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 56 pages

Download or read book The Geography and Map Division written by Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fort Caroline  the Search for America s Lost Heritage

Download or read book Fort Caroline the Search for America s Lost Heritage written by Richard Thornton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1564, the French attempted to establish a colony, calling it Fort Caroline, along the May River (now St. Johns River). The original site is has been lost. Here, Thornton uses histories, documents, and maps in an effort to locate the elusive Fort Caroline, and to determine if it might be located in Georgia or Florida, which has been historically debated.

Book Song of Tides

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas A. Joseph
  • Publisher : University of Alabama Press
  • Release : 2008-06-04
  • ISBN : 0817354840
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Song of Tides written by Thomas A. Joseph and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2008-06-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Calusa's historic repulsion of 16th-century Spanish occupiers.

Book La Florida

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aleck Loker
  • Publisher : Aleck Loker
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 1928874207
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book La Florida written by Aleck Loker and published by Aleck Loker. This book was released on 2010 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ridpath s History of the World

Download or read book Ridpath s History of the World written by John Clark Ridpath and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Houses of St  Augustine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Albert Manucy
  • Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
  • Release : 2011-10-01
  • ISBN : 9781258152468
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book The Houses of St Augustine written by Albert Manucy and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Hernando de Soto and Florida

Download or read book The History of Hernando de Soto and Florida written by Barnard Shipp and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical record of expeditions to Florida by Hernando de Soto and others from the years 1512-1568.

Book America s Real First Thanksgiving

Download or read book America s Real First Thanksgiving written by Robyn Gioia and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an account of America's first real Thanksgiving, celebrated by the Spanish and the native Timucua in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565 with a feast that may have included a pork stew, wild turkey, corn, and beans.

Book The Cross in the Sand

Download or read book The Cross in the Sand written by Michael Gannon and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Laudonni  re and Fort Caroline

Download or read book Laudonni re and Fort Caroline written by Charles E. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Black Society in Spanish Florida

Download or read book Black Society in Spanish Florida written by Jane Landers and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first extensive study of the African American community under colonial Spanish rule, Black Society in Spanish Florida provides a vital counterweight to the better-known dynamics of the Anglo slave South. Jane Landers draws on a wealth of untapped primary sources, opening a new vista on the black experience in America and enriching our understanding of the powerful links between race relations and cultural custom. Blacks under Spanish rule in Florida lived not in cotton rows or tobacco patches but in a more complex and international world that linked the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and a powerful and diverse Indian hinterland. Here the Spanish Crown afforded sanctuary to runaway slaves, making the territory a prime destination for blacks fleeing Anglo plantations, while Castilian law (grounded in Roman law) provided many avenues out of slavery, which it deemed an unnatural condition. European-African unions were common and accepted in Florida, with families of African descent developing important community connections through marriage, concubinage, and godparent choices. Assisted by the corporate nature of Spanish society, Spain's medieval tradition of integration and assimilat

Book Wicked St  Augustine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ann Colby
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2020-02-17
  • ISBN : 1439669015
  • Pages : 126 pages

Download or read book Wicked St Augustine written by Ann Colby and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine in 1565, his New World survival kit included gambling, liquor and ladies for hire. For the next four hundred years, these three industries were vital in keeping the city financially afloat. With the cooperation of law enforcement and politicians, St. Augustine's madams, bootleggers and high-rollers created a veritable Riviera where tourists, especially the wealthy, could indulge in almost every vice and still bring the family along for a wholesome vacation picking oranges and gawking at alligators. Join historian Ann Colby's tour of spots not on the standard tourist map to discover hidden-in-plain-sight bordellos, speakeasies, casinos and the occasional opium den.

Book The Juan Pardo Expeditions

Download or read book The Juan Pardo Expeditions written by Charles Hudson and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2005-07-24 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides English translations of selected passages from the expedition accounts of sixteenth-century explorer Juan Pardo in the Carolinas and Tennessee, and includes interpretations of Pardo's routes and encounters with native peoples.

Book Florida s Frontiers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul E. Hoffman
  • Publisher : History of the Trans-Appalachi
  • Release : 2002-01-11
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 506 pages

Download or read book Florida s Frontiers written by Paul E. Hoffman and published by History of the Trans-Appalachi. This book was released on 2002-01-11 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida has had many frontiers. Imagination, greed, missionary zeal, disease, war, and diplomacy have created its historical boundaries. Bodies of water, soil, flora and fauna, the patterns of Native American occupation, and ways of colonizing have defined Florida's frontiers. Paul E. Hoffman tells the story of those frontiers and how the land and the people shaped them during the three centuries from 1565 to 1860. For settlers to La Florida, the American Southeast ca. 1500, better natural and human resources were found on the piedmont and on the western side of Florida's central ridge, while the coasts and coastal plains proved far less inviting. But natural environment was only one important factor in the settlement of Florida. The Spaniards, the British, the Seminole and Miccosuki, the Spaniards once again, and finally Americans constructed their Florida frontiers in interaction with the Native Americans who were present, the vestiges of earlier frontiers, and international events. The near-completion of the range and township surveys by 1860 and of the deportation of most of the Seminole and Miccosuki mark the end of the Florida frontier, though frontier-like conditions persisted in many parts of the state into the early 20th century. For this major work of Florida history, Hoffman has drawn from a broad range of secondary works and from his intensive research in Spanish archival sources of the 16th and 17th centuries. Florida's Frontiers will be welcomed by students of history well beyond the Sunshine State.