The book Old Saint Augustine a Story of Three Centuries was written by author Charles B Charles Bingham Reynolds Here you can read free online of Old Saint Augustine a Story of Three Centuries book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Old Saint Augustine a Story of Three Centuries a good or bad book?
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"With the inconvenience of continuall mortalities, " writes the historian of the expedition, "we were forced to give over our intended enterprise, to goe with Nombre de Dios, and so overland to Panama, where we should have strooken the stroke for the treasure, and full recompence of our tedious travails. " Accordingly, with what plunder they had already secured, they turned their faces homeward, and set sail for England. On the 20th of May, being then off the Florida coast, they came in sight o...f a watch tower, which was a token to them that there were Spaniards here. Their hostility to the race was sufficient inducement for them to approach the land and fall upon the settlement; but when they found that it was none other than San Augustin, a more particular mo- tive urged them on to the attack. This San Augustin was the town founded by Pedro Menendez d'Avil^s, a Spaniard with whom Admiral Francis Drake and all other English sea-kings had a long-standing account to adjust. Twenty years before this, certain Spanish ships of the Indian fleet, Admiral Don Pedro Menendez d'Avil^s in command, had come upon five brigs flying the Cross of St.
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