Near present-day St. Augustine, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on the Florida coast, and claims the territory for the Spanish crown.
Native Americans inhabited the area that became known as Florida for thousands of years before any European contact. Although other European navigators may have sighted the Florida peninsula before, Ponce de León is credited with the first recorded landing and the first detailed exploration of the Florida coast. The Spanish explorer was searching for the “Fountain of Youth,” a fabled water source that was said to bring eternal youth. Ponce de León named the peninsula he believed to be an island “La Florida” because his discovery came during the time of the Easter feast, or Pascua Florida.
In 1521, he returned to Florida in an effort to establish a Spanish colony. However, hostile Native Americans attacked his expedition soon after landing, and the party retreated to Cuba, where Ponce de León died from a mortal wound suffered during the battle. Successful Spanish colonization of the peninsula finally began at St. Augustine in 1565, and in 1819 the territory passed into U.S. control under the terms of the Florida Purchase Treaty between Spain and the United States.
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The squirt was only 4’11” in height. Wonder if the rest onboard were all shorties.
Ponce didn’t discover FLA.
It was already here and owned.
Spanish went about killing and looting & stealing for their ‘Queen’ because Spain was bankrupt.
Why do we glorify that behavior? And TEACH about it?
oh! wait……
It has been proposed by ‘scientists’ today to actually make people smaller in stature weak and sickly like they were in the past where food and nutrition was lacking.
Easier to control if we all had child-like bodies (and brains).