Introduction – St. Augustine: America’s Ancient City https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/staugustine/timeline/criollo-introduction/
Official hearings were held in 1602 to decide the fate of St. Augustine—keep it, move it or abandon it? The decision was to keep the colony where it was, as a haven for shipwreck victims and a strategic military position against the ever-increasing threat of pirates preying on the Spanish treasure f
Mission Indian uprisings, severe epidemics, pirate attacks and the increasing threat