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Raccoon Key in Georgia site of first Fort St. Augustine?

If the French fort of La Caroline was actually on the Altamaha River in Georgia and not the St. John’s River in Florida then from where did the Spanish la

The Whole and True Discouerye of Terra Florida by Jean Ribault

From a manuscript copy in the British Museum. (Archive.org) HERE AS in the yeare 1562 it pleased God to move your grace f to chose and appoynt us t

Academics Locate Fort Caroline in Georgia not Florida

Evidence continues to accumulate that the site of Fort Caroline, the first European settlement in America, was actually in Darien, Georgia and not Jacksonville

Pedro de Menendez Account of Fort Caroline Capture

Pedro de Menéndez de Avilés to Philip II: I wrote to Your Majesty from aboard the galleon San Salvador on September llth, this being the day she left Port. Th

Merchant-Traders of Florida

Editor’s Note: This Spanish eyewitness account from Garcilaso de la Vega’s Florida of the Inca reveals two different types of Native American trader

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