Pedro Menendez De Aviles

Author : Gonzalo Solís de Merás
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813065925
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pedro Menéndez de Avilés 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.

Author : Albert Manucy
Publisher : Pineapple Press
ISBN 13 : 1561640166
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Menendez written by Albert Manucy and published by Pineapple Press. This book was released on 1992-04-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows of Columbus and Ponce de Leon, but the name of Menendez is not as familiar. Yet Pedro Menendez de Aviles might truly be called one of the founding fathers of America, for he was the founder of the nation's oldest city—St. Augustine. This book is the first to be written about Menendez. It is based on scholarly research, but it is not just a work for the scholar. It was written for the education and enjoyment of any reader who wants to meet this remarkable man. Manucy has dramatized historic moments so that history comes alive and we find ourselves in the midst of it.

Author : Eugene Lyon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813007779
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : Russell Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781584151500
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pedro Menéndez de Aviles written by Russell Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Spanish seaman and explorer who established a colony at St. Augustine and claimed former French lands in Florida for Spain.

Author : J. A. Marinas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788493756086
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pedro Menéndez de Avilés written by J. A. Marinas and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Kolars
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781932350777
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sea Tiger written by Frank Kolars and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedro Menéndez of Aviles is an unfamiliar name to many Americans-and yet in 1565 this remarkable man founded St. Augustine, the oldest continually-inhabited city in North America. Growing up in Asturia, Spain, the young Pedro becomes a master at handling boats, with an instinctive knowledge of the sea, its ways and those who sail upon it. From his nobleman father, he also comes to understand and detest "the vast, tough web piracy had spun to enmesh the shipping of two continents." Gifts of observation, memory and strong will cause Don Pedro to achieve a legendary reputation as the "Sea Tiger, Scourge of Pirates" and in 1554, to be appointed the Captain General of His Majesty's Fleet by Emperor Charles V. With the Bay of Biscay's shipping channels freed from buccaneers, a fresh colonization in the New World becomes possible. In 1565, Pedro Menéndez himself heads a major-and challenging-expedition of colonists, soldiers and missionaries to successfully establish a settlement in Florida. In the words of one of Menéndez' soldiers, "he considered nothing but the service of God and his Majesty, without looking to [his own] human interests." Lively storytelling and concise commentary add to the pleasure of this fascinating biography about a man of integrity and unswerving faith. Includes a useful Author's Note Historical Insight article by Daria SockeyRevised edition

Author : Albert Manucy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 156164692X
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Menendez written by Albert Manucy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows of Columbus and Ponce de Leon, but the name of Menendez is not as familiar. Yet Pedro Menendez de Aviles might truly be called one of the founding fathers of America, for he was the founder of the nation's oldest city—St. Augustine. This book is the first to be written about Menendez. It is based on scholarly research, but it is not just a work for the scholar. It was written for the education and enjoyment of any reader who wants to meet this remarkable man. Manucy has dramatized historic moments so that history comes alive and we find ourselves in the midst of it.

Author : Thomas A. Joseph
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817354840
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Charles E. Bennett
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081731122X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laudonniere & Fort Caroline written by Charles E. Bennett and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2001-05-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic historical resource remains the most complete work on the establishment of Fort Caroline, which heralded the start of permanent settlement by Europeans in North America. America's history was shaped in part by the clash of cultures that took place in the southeastern United States in the 1560s. Indians, French, and Spaniards vied to profit from European attempts to colonize the land Juan Ponce de Leon had named La Florida. Rene de Goulaine de Laudonniere founded a French Huguenot settlement on the St. Johns River near present-day Jacksonville and christened it Fort Caroline in 1564, but only a year later the hapless colonists were expelled by a Spanish fleet led by Pedro Menendez de Aviles. The Spanish in turn established a permanent settlement at St. Augustine, now the oldest city in the United States, and blocked any future French claims in Florida. Using documents from both French and Spanish archives, Charles E. Bennett provides the first comprehensive account of the events surrounding the international conflicts of this 16th-century colonization effort, which was the actual "threshold" of a new nation. The translated Laudonniere documents also provide a wealth of information about the natural wonders of the land and the native Timucua Indians encountered by the French. As a tribe, the Timucua would be completely gone by the mid-1700s, so these accounts are invaluable to ethnologists and anthropologists. With this republication of Laudonniere & Fort Caroline, a new generation of archaeologists, anthropologists, and American colonial historians can experience the New World through the adventures of the French explorers. Visitors to Fort Caroline National Memorial will also find the volume fascinating reading as they explore the tentative early beginnings of a new nation.

Author : Paul E. Hoffman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253108784
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Florida's Frontiers written by Paul E. Hoffman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-11 with total page 504 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.