Menéndez landed at St. Augustine on 8 September 1565 to take formal possession of the land for Spain.
Menéndez Landing
Painting by Stanley Meltzoff, from National Geographic, February 1966, Vol. 129, No. 2, pp. 198-9. Download image (jpg, 115 KB).

Menéndez landed at St. Augustine on 8 September 1565 to take formal possession of the land for Spain, and to found what would become the oldest permanently occupied settlement in North America.

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