Menéndez de Avilés
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St. Augustine is 452 years old, having been founded by the Spanish conquistador Don Pedro Menéndez de Avilés in 1565.
From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2017
The city was founded that year by Don Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, a Spanish admiral and explorer, and his 800 followers.
From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2012
Spain sent Pedro Menéndez de Avilés to make the French leave Florida.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
Menéndez de Avilés, and the expulsion of the French.—Philip decided now to eject the French and colonize Florida, and entrusted the task to Menéndez de Avilés, a great naval officer.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
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