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Lay of the Land The Fight For Florida
of Mexico. Two years later, the French moved to Fort Caroline near the mouth of the St. John’s River, by Jacksonville, Florida. The Spanish countered by establishing St. Augustine in 1565, and attacking and defeating the French. Today, archaeologists are hard at work trying to locate, preserve, and understand the remains of this conflict. Charlesfort and the successor Spanish colony of St. Elena are preserved on the Parris Island Marine Base, and archaeologists are gleaning much new information about these early European settlements. St. Augustine is a thriving resort city with one of the nation’s most active urban archaeology programs, where its earliest history is being coaxed from 450 years of development.
Mark Michel, President
Fort Caroline is still lost, but archaeologists are searching for its remains and its story. The ships that went down in the first European naval engagement in the United States are also lost. Archaeologists on the land and in the water are now using the latest technology to find the missing Fort Caroline and the missing sunken ships. It can be a long and tedious process, but archaeologists are a determined lot, and dramatic results may be just around the corner.
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ne of the most interesting and intriguing spheres of North American archaeology concerns the machinations of the great powers of Europe—Britain, France, and Spain—for dominance of the newly discovered continent. All three were establishing fortifications and settlements on coastal America, and their success or failure determined the course of American history. In this issue of American Archaeology (see “When France Tried To Colonize Florida,” page 32) we take a look at the 16th-century struggle between France and Spain for control of Florida. In 1562, the French built Charlesfort on Parris Island, South Carolina, the first European settlement north
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