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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés

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From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Date: 20080415
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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés , 1519-74, Spanish naval officer and colonizer, founder of Saint Augustine , Fla. He went to sea as a youth and so distinguished himself that by the time he was 35 he held the captain generalcy of the Indies fleet, which convoyed treasure ships from the New World to Spain. In 1565, Philip II of Spain charged him with driving the French Huguenots from Fort Caroline and establishing a Spanish colony in Florida. Menéndez's expedition of 11 ships and 500 colonists sailed from Spain and on Aug. 28 entered the harbor he named for St. Augustine. At the ...

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