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.
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.
The Spanish Massacre
the French in Florida, 1565
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/spanishmassacre.htm
Fort Matanzas = place of the massacre
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.
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