Pedro Menéndez De Avilés
1519-1574
Spanish mariner who founded what has since become one of the oldest European settlements in North America. Menéndez's career as a seaman began ...
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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (1519-1574) was a Spanish seaman and colonizer. Among the most renowned seamen of his time, he founded St. Augustine, the first permanent white settlement in wha...
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