ST. AUGUSTINE
Florida’s Colonial Capital
By J. T. VAN CAMPEN
Third Printing 1971
C. F. Hamblen, Inc.
P. O. Box 1568
St. Augustine, Florida
Published By
THE ST. AUGUSTINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Copyright 1959 by J. T. Van Campen
PRINTED IN U.S.A.
Contents
[I Settlement] 3 [The Spanish Treasure Fleets] 4 [The Huguenots Occupy Florida] 6 [Don Pedro Menéndez] 8 [The Rival Fleets] 10 [The Turn of the Tide] 12 [Capture of Fort Caroline] 12 [The Victor Returns] 14 [Fate of the Shipwrecked French] 14 [Other Difficulties] 16 [Gunpowder Versus Arrows] 16 [Menéndez Goes to Spain] 18 [On the Brink of Failure] 18 [Death of Menéndez] 19 [II The Years Accumulate] 20 [First English Visit] 20 [Saving of Savage Souls] 23 [Another Crisis] 26 [Capital of La Florida] 26 [III The English Threat] 29 [A Midnight Raid] 29 [A Stone Fort at Last] 30 [Settlement of Pensacola] 32 [Border Conflict] 32 [The Shipwrecked Quakers] 32 [The Castle’s First Test] 34 [The Capital’s Defenses] 35 [Palmer’s Raid] 36 [Oglethorpe’s Siege] 37 [Further Hostilities] 40 [IV Under British Rule] 43 [British Rule Begins] 44 [The New Smyrna Colony] 46 [During the Revolution] 49 [Another Treaty] 50 [V Spanish Rule Returns] 52 [The North Florida Republic] 55 [A Bit of Spain] 56 [Ceded to the United States] 57 [VI Under the United States] 58 [Visitors Begin to Arrive] 58 [The Freeze of 1835] 59 [The Seminole War] 61 [A Peaceful Interlude] 62 [During the Civil War] 64 [Tourist Industry Resumed] 65 [Its Isolation Broken] 66 [The Flagler Influence] 66 [The Changing Scene] 69 [St. Augustine Today] 71 [PUBLICATIONS] 73
Don Pedro Menéndez de Aviles, the great Spanish admiral, who founded St. Augustine and made Florida a Spanish province.