What was the first Spanish settlement in Florida and why was it important?

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Eyevan · Answer 1 · 2022-12-29T06:02:57+0000

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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés hastened across the Atlantic, his sights set on removing the French and creating a Spanish settlement. Menéndez arrived in 1565 at a place he called San Augustín (St. Augustine) and established the first permanent European settlement in what is now the United States.

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