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Posted on 11/24/2016 6:01:56 PM PST by heterosupremacist
Subtitle : 'And it happened 50 years before Plymouth!'
September 8, 1565.
“When the first Spanish settlers landed in what is now St. Augustine on September 8, 1565, to build a settlement, their first act was to hold a religious service to thank God for the safe arrival of the Spanish fleet… After the Mass, Father Francisco Lopez, the Chaplin of the Spanish ships and the first pastor of St. Augustine, stipulated that the natives from the Timucua tribe be fed along with the Spanish settlers, including Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles, the leader of the expedition. It was the very first Thanksgiving and the first Thanksgiving meal in the United States"
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There were even a few thankful in Jamestown.
This is the kind of silly article that appears every year...
Pensacola was actually settled before St. Augustine. However no one knows what became of them. It was later settled again, permanently.
I have always wondered if some of them might have survived. If so it would be the oldest settlement in the U.S.
L’Anse aux meadows, Newfoundland - Vikings - 1000AD.
please....!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Caroline
Fort Caroline was one of the first French colonies in the present-day United States, located on the banks of the St. Johns River in what is now Jacksonville, Florida. It was established under the leadership of René Goulaine de Laudonnière on June 22, 1564, as a new territorial claim in French Florida and a safe haven for Huguenots.
I don’t doubt that the Vikings were here long before the Spanish. I would not even be surprised if Romans, Greeks etc. made it to the New World.
As far as I know, none of them made permanent settlements.
Re: Post #8
triSranch wrote:
please....!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Caroline
I posted what I posted. I don’t live or die by my posts...
yea for our team!
/s
The Spanish Massacre
the French in Florida, 1565
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/spanishmassacre.htm
Fort Matanzas = place of the massacre
There was a Catholic Mass thankgiving celebrated in Arizona 60 years before the Pilgrims.
Silly? A true story is silly? Hmmm...
No, the story is great. The claim that this was the first Thanksgiving was silly.
Catholic Christopher Columbus sailed from Catholic Spain in 1492 and soon after other Catholics from Spain led expeditions. Ponce de Leon founded Florida in 1513 and St. Augustine was settled in 1565, St. Augustine was founded on September 8, 1565, by Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Florida’s first governor. He named the settlement “San Agustín”, as his ships bearing settlers, troops, and supplies from Spain had first sighted land in Florida eleven days earlier on August 28, the feast day of St. Augustine.
BTTT!
True article. Not silly.
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