Fortresses on Sand: The History of Florida -- pt. 3
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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What Happened to Minendes?
A group of soldiers explored the florida keys and the ten thousand islands. They then made direct diplomatic contact, again with the calusa. But there was a complication in that menendez was already married. He had a wife back in spain, as many of the spanish ists knew. And he would have been very concerned about the sin of bigamy. So it seems that what he did is he sort of allowed the colusa to think that he was accepting this sister as a bride. But what they actually do was took her and basically handed over to the custody of some anish ladies who took her to cuba, had her baptized and renamed with the christian name
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