DISCOVERING ST. AUGUSTINE.

SAINT Augustine (Fla.); FLORIDA

The article explores the history of the city of Saint Augustine in Florida. Spanish colonial Saint Augustine was the earliest permanent European settlement in America, predating Plymouth and Jamestown. Admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés came ashore on August 28, 1565, the Feast Day of Saint Augustine. Eight hundred soldiers and Spanish colonists joined Menéndez at the new village. For almost two hundred years, the city withstood sieges from British colonists in Georgia and the Carolinas. Spanish possession of the city was interrupted only once, during the twenty-year British occupation after the French and Indian War.