Who was Pedro Menéndez?

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February 15, 2015

 

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (February 15, 1519 – September 17, 1574) was Comendador of the Holy Cross of Zarza of the Knights of Santiago, Captain-General of the Ocean Sea, Governor of Cuba, Captain-General of the West, Adelantado of Florida, and Founder of St. Augustine. He faithfully served the Spanish Crown as a Captain-General of the Royal Armadas for 32 years.

The young mariner from Avilés:

A native of northern Spain, Don Pedro Menéndez de Avilés was born on Saturday, February 15, 1519, in the Principality of Asturias, in the seaport of Avilés. He was one of the younger sons of Juan Alfonso Sánchez de Avilés, who had valiantly served the Catholic Monarchs in the Conquest of Granada (1482-92), and

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BOVES, EL LEÓN DE LOS LLANOS

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EN el parque del Oeste de Madrid había antiguamente un monumento en recuerdo a los héroes de las guerras coloniales, que fue destruido en la guerra civil; en su lugar se encuentra actualmente el monumento dedicado a Simón Bolívar.

No es el único monumento levantado en su memoria en España, también lo hay en Cádiz, en Sevilla o en Barcelona entre otras localidades. Aun siendo un personaje que luchó contra España, es justo reconocer la importancia que en el proceso histórico hispanoamericano ha tenido, pero siempre y cuando ello no suponga el olvido de los nuestros, aquellos que lucharon y murieron por España.

Y uno de esos personajes es, sin

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Discovery and Colonization of the New World (En versión n. americana)

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(1492 - 1763)

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THE AGE OF DISCOVERY

    It is not known how long humans have wandered the expanse of land that came to be known as America.  The earliest identified inhabitants, those now recognized as American Indians, are believed to have entered the North American continent through an icy Siberian passageway that once existed between northeastern Asia and the region now called Alaska. Many archeologists believe Viking ships explored the far northeastern coast of North America around the year 1000 A.D.  In terms of recorded history, the story of the American nation and its culture begins with the 1492 discovery of the

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John Cabot's 1497 Voyage & the Limits of Historiography

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The Cabot Dilemma:

 


Derek Croxton
University of Virginia


In 1497,John Cabot (Giovanni Cabotto) set off on a voyage to Asia. On his way he, like Christopher Columbus, ran into an island off the coast of North America. As a result, Cabot became the second European to discover North America, thus laying an English claim which would be followed up only after an interval of over one hundred years. With such an interlude, his voyage seems mainly of academic interest. Although it is true that prior discovery was often used as a justification for colonization,1 the great amount of time between discovery and colonizing reduces Cabots importance to a minimum in this regard. However, this is not at all to say that Cabot was unimportant. In becoming

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