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Coordinates: 32.3063°N 80.6755°W. Santa Elena, a Spanish settlement on what is now Parris Island, South Carolina, was the capital of Spanish Florida from 1566 to 1587. It was established under Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, the first governor of Spanish Florida. [1] [2] There had been a number of earlier attempts to establish colonies in the ...
Albert Clement Manucy was born in St. Augustine on February 20, 1910. His family were of Minorcan descent; his ancestor Josef Manucy was one of the indentured laborers at Andrew Turnbull's colony in New Smyrna, Florida before fleeing to sanctuary in St. Augustine with the other colony settlers in 1779. [1] He attended Ketterlinus High School ...
St. Augustine High School is the oldest active public high school in the St. Johns County School District, located in unincorporated St. Johns County, Florida, with a St. Augustine postal address. [4] It teaches students in grades 9 through 12. SAHS is home to an athletics department, performing arts department, visual arts department ...
Portrait of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, after a painting by Titian. On Tuesday, September 4, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, adelantado of La Florida, set sail from the harbor of what was to become the presidio of St. Augustine, and coasting north, came upon four vessels lying at anchor off the mouth of a river.
35 killed or wounded [4] Light. The Raid on St. Augustine was a military event during the Anglo-Spanish War in which the Spanish settlement of St. Augustine in Florida ( Spanish: San Agustín )) was captured in a small fight and burnt by an English expedition fleet led by Sir Francis Drake. [1] This was part of Sir Francis Drake's Great ...
Cross and Sword was a 1965 play by American playwright Paul Green created to honor the 400th anniversary of the settlement of St. Augustine. It was Florida 's official state play, having received the designation by the Florida Senate in 1973. [1] It was performed for ten weeks every summer in St. Augustine for more than 30 years, closing in 1996.
Mario Benjamín Menéndez (1930–2015), Argentine general, military Governor of the Falklands during the Falklands War. Lyle and Erik Menéndez, American brothers who were convicted of murdering their parents in 1989. Manuel Menéndez (1793–1847), President of Peru for three brief periods 1841–1845. Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo (1856 ...
Carlos, also known as Calos or King Calusa (died 1567), was king or paramount chief of the Calusa people of Southwest Florida from about 1556 until his death. As his father, the preceding king, was also known as Carlos, he is sometimes called Carlos II. Carlos ruled over one of the most powerful and prosperous chiefdoms in the region at the ...