Pirates, Presidents, Conquistadores and More

oin Landmark Events historian Bill Potter and our Floridian friend, Evan Soileau as we explore the ancient sites of northeastern Florida, redolent with the sea breezes of the Atlantic and steeped in a providential history that helped create the English civilization that became embedded north of Florida and brought about the abandonment of the outposts of Spain’s Empire in North America. We will tell the stories of the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine and the French Huguenot colony at Jacksonville, Ft. Caroline. We will remember the courageous Reformed settlers who brought the Gospel to the natives of the region and their subsequent extermination by the Spanish for the capitol crime of rejecting the Catholic Church and following the Calvinist Reformation. We will examine the lives and times of fearless conquistadors, colorful pirates, superstitious explorers seeking the Fountain of Youth, and the ferocious no-holds-barred Scots-Irish General Andrew Jackson who seized Florida and would not give it back.

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https://landmarkevents.org/florida/