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	Pedro Menéndez de Avilés - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles, the founder of Saint Augustine, FL Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (born February 15, 1519 in Avilés, Spain, died in Santander on September 17, 1574), was the first Spanish governor of Florida.
		Pedro Menéndez de Avilés was about forty-six years when he had risen to the highest rank in the Spanish navy; he was a man of means with a huge family fortune; an Hidalgo.
		Pedro Menendez High School on State Road 206 in Saint Johns County is named after him, as well as several streets in the area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pedro_Men%C3%A9ndez_de_Avil%C3%A9s (511 words)

	Pedro Menendez de Aviles
		MENENDEZ (or Melendez) seems to have been rather too harshly treated by historians, for his career in Florida was not wholly voluntary.
		It was firmly planted in the sand by the side of the flagstaff from which fluttered the royal banner in a gentle breeze; and a shield bearing the arms of Spain was leaned against the cross.
		Menendez firmly planted a colony at St. Augustine, and sent an expedition, with Jesuit missionaries, to explore the waters of Chesapeake Bay, plant a settlement there, and scatter the seeds of Christianity among the pagans.
	publicbookshelf.com /public_html/Our_Country_Vol_1/pedromene_ci.html (2599 words)

	Pedro Menendez de Aviles Claims Florida for Spain
		Menendez was born in 1519 and ran away from home to be a sailor at the age of 14.
		Menendez was successful in signing a treaty, or agreement, with the Calusa Indians to trade gold for food and other supplies his troops needed to survive.
		Menendez was a staunch Roman Catholic, and one of his goals was to convert Native Americans to the Catholic faith.
	fcit.coedu.usf.edu /florida/lessons/menendz/menendz1.htm (655 words)

	staugustine.com Welcomes the King of Spain
		Pedro Menendez de Aviles y Alonso de la Campa has the recognition in St. Augustine of being this city's founder.
		At this time, approximately 1559, Menendez was in command of a fleet that was commissioned to command the Fleet of the Indies, which brought goods and treasure back to Spain from the Americas.
		In 1563, Menendez was jailed by the board of commissioners that oversaw the Indies project for disobeying commands at sea.
	www.staugustine.com /king/pedro_menendez.shtml (454 words)

	Witness to Empire and the Tightening of Military Control: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pedro Menéndez Marqués could justify some of these appointments by claiming that these men were most qualified through prior Florida service, but their loyalty to him appears to have been their best claim to these positions.
		Pedro Menéndez Marqués wrote the Casa de Contratación at the end of August, 1586 that an Indian man had just informed him that, in the middle of that month, five large ships and three small ones had entered the harbor and made a sounding of Santa Elena’s sandbar, then departed.
		Pedro Menéndez Marqués soon began to urge that the people of Santa Elena should join his soldiers at St. Augustine and said that one fort would be more effective than two far apart, with many indefensible harbors in between.
	www.fiu.edu /~history/kislakprize/Paar.htm (10648 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Pedro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pedro I PEDRO I [Pedro I] (Dom Pedro de Alcântara), 1798-1834, first emperor of Brazil (1822-31); son of John VI of Portugal.
		Pedro II PEDRO II [Pedro II] (Dom Pedro II de Alcântara), 1825-91, emperor of Brazil (1831-89).
		San Pedro Sula and Puerto Cortés are the principal ports of Honduras and serve the northwestern banana and sugar plantations.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/09956.html (679 words)

	AllRefer.com - Pedro MenEndez de AvilEs (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		MenEndez's expedition of 11 ships and 500 colonists sailed from Spain and on Aug. 28 entered the harbor he named for St. Augustine.
		At the mouth of the St. Johns River on Sept. 4 he encountered a French fleet under Jean Ribaut, which he was unable to bring to combat.
		MenEndez then returned to St. Augustine, where he began to build a fort.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MenendezA.html (393 words)

	Dr. Bronson and Friends: A History of the City of St. Augustine
		The third part of Pedro Menendez de Aviles (picture on tile at the Oldest House) quest was to convert the Native Americans to the Catholic faith.
		Menendez sighted land from his ship Pearl on August 28 which is the Feast Day of Saint Augustine.
		On June 7, 1586 the English pirate Sir Francis Drake attacked the tiny St. Augustine settlement with 2,000 pirates.Pedro Menendez Marques, the nephew of Pedro Menendez was the Spanish governor (1578-1589).
	www.drbronsontours.com /bronsonhistorypage.html (2354 words)

	Pedro Menendez de Aviles - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pedro Menendez de Aviles - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Menéndez de Avilés, Pedro (1519-74), Spanish naval officer, founder of Saint Augustine, Florida.
		Valdivia, Pedro de (circa 1500-54), Spanish military leader and conqueror of Chile, born in Villanueva de la Serena.
	encarta.msn.com /Pedro_Menendez_de_Aviles.html (113 words)

	FLORIDA OF THE SPANISH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Menendez's first goal after the defeat of the French was to gain the friendship of the native Floridians.
		Menendez' hopes to develop a plantation economy was generally ignored by the Council.
		Menendez had hoped Florida would become an agricultural empire, but the Spaniards stayed along the coast where the soil was sandy.
	www.floridahistory.org /floridians/spanish.htm (2191 words)

	Pedro Menendez de Aviles Biography / Biography of Pedro Menendez de Aviles Main Biography
		Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (1519-1574) was a Spanish seaman and colonizer.
		Pedro Menéndez was born on Feb. 15, 1519, at Avilés, a seaport in Asturias.
		Being one of 20 brothers and sisters, he knew his inheritance would be small and decided to earn his livelihood as a seaman.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-pedro-menendez-de-aviles (666 words)

	COSA: News- Menendez Birthday Festival
		When Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles was born, as proud as his parents were of the new baby, they could never have imagined he would found a town that would celebrate his birthday nearly five centuries later.
		Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles was born in Aviles, Spain on February 15, 1519 and at the age of 46 founded St. Augustine, today the longest continually inhabited European-founded city in the United States, or "the Nation’s Oldest City." St. Augustine was founded on September 8, 1565.
		The Menendez Festival is produced annually by the City of St. Augustine’s Department of Heritage Tourism for the benefit of the city’s preservation projects.
	www.ci.st-augustine.fl.us /pressreleases/1_03/menendezfest.html (285 words)

	Witness to Empire and the Tightening of Military Control
		Pedro Menéndez Marqués re-established the town of Santa Elena mostly with different men than had lived there before, although there may have been greater continuity among the town’s female population, as indicated by the governor’s letter quoted above.
		[122] Pedro Menéndez Marqués instructed Miranda that he should fortify as well as he could, as they would do at St. Augustine, and then “let fortune do what it wants.” [123] He instructed Gutierre de Miranda that no religious or lay person was to go among the Indians until the situation changed.
		[198] In an undated note, Governor Pedro Menéndez Marqués assured the King that he had done everything he could to keep the appraisals of the Santa Elena homes moderate.Menéndez Marqués stated that these holdings were actually worth more than their valuations, even as he acknowledged the poverty of the Santa Elena residents.
	www.kislakfoundation.org /prize/199902.html (4383 words)

	History of Santa Elena
		While Pardo was involved in the interior, Pedro Menéndez focused on strenghtening his hold on all of Spanish Florida.
		In his contract with Phillip II, Pedro Menéndez had agreed to bring 100 farmers among those in his initial expeditionary force, and he was also obligated to bring an additional 400 settlers to Florida within three years of his arrival.
		Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Adelantado of Florida, died in 1574 while on a mission to Spain.
	www.cas.sc.edu /sciaa/staff/depratterc/hstory1.html (1014 words)

	Pedro Menendez (Contemporaneo \| Luna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pedro Menendez is a multi-instrumentalist from Argentina who has a fresh ear for blending the sounds of different musics.
		As a pianist Menendez is certainly influenced as much by classical players as by Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson or Vince Guaraldi.
		Menendez’ fellow musicians are all talented and unobtrusive, leaving the forefront to the piano.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /reviews/r1201_061.htm (335 words)

	Search Our Georgia History for pedro menendez
		In a letter known as "Declaracion de lo que vino del la Florida," Pedro Menendez de Aviles indicates that he is not sure whether the fort at St. John's is English, French or both.
		Spanish (Pedro Menendez de Aviles) establish the city of St. Augustine.
		Pedro Menendez de Aviles, governor of Florida, visits St. Catherine's and meets with Guale, a chief who controls the lower half of Georgia's coast.
	www.ourgeorgiahistory.com /search?id=966 (187 words)

	The Menendez Men (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On a visit to St Augustine in 2000, the artist Mark Menendez, who also happens to be a descendant of the famous explorer, noticed The Menendez Room at the Nombre de Dios gift shop, and wondered if perhaps a portrait his father owned might belong there.
		Menendez' home only two years before that home was sold and the portrait returned to he displayed in Mark's home.
		Commissioned portraits by Mark Menendez are in corporate and private collections: of note are the Royal Portraits of the Knights of Sant'Yago, which are displayed in the King's Banquet Hall at the famous Columbia Restaurant in Ybor City, Tampa's famed Latin Quarter district.
	positivelystaugustine.com /mission2.htm (783 words)

	FLORIDA OF THE FRENCH</HEAD> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pedro Menendez de Aviles was a skilled sailor, a wealthy supporter of Spain, and a staunch Roman Catholic, all qualities needed to take control of Florida.
		Menendez, realizing the French were caught in a storm south of St. Augustine, decided to start his own surprise attack, an overland march to Fort Caroline.
		Pedro Menendez de Aviles had placed the Spanish flag at San Mateo and St.
	www.floridahistory.org /floridians/french.htm (1477 words)

	CD Review of Pedro Menendez Ensemble - Secretos de la Guitarra on Contemporaneo Art Music @ jazzreview.com
		Pedro Menendez (Spanish guitar, traverse flute, pianica, acoustic bass, percussion, and vocals), Daniel Serale (vibes, glockenspiel, xylophone and cymbals), Daniel Buono (double bass), Raul Di Renzo (violin), Ricardo Lanfiuti (viola), Fabio Loverso (cello), Marcelo Nisinman (bandoneon), Daniel Miguez (drums and bombo leguero), Gustavo Dominguez (percussion)
		Menendez tends to remain understated in making his point.
		On ‘Como seran los Pirineos?,’ Menendez employs a trio with himself on guitar, Buono on bass, and Serale on vibes.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=6669 (403 words)

	Gonzalo Gayon - Menendez's Chief Pilot
		He was regularly sent to reconnoiter the lands and waters...and establish contact with local casiques (Timucuan chiefs) in order to secure the release of any shipwecked Europeans who were being held captive.
		Before Pedro Menéndez departed for a mission in the West Indies for his King in October, 1566, he asked his chief pilot, Gonzalo Gayon, to penetrate into Mayaca from the East Coast.
		Like many of Menendez’ most trusted associates, Gayon was an Asturian, from the little town of Pola de Lena, and was the most skilled pilot in the colony.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /calderon/gayon.html (2130 words)

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		Composer and arranger, pianist, guitarrist and flutist, Pedro Menéndez is one of the Argentine's musicians, pioneer in latinamerican fusion, with an avant-garde musical languaje, that reflects the rich and complex cosmopolitan influences at Buenos Aires.
		Pedro Menéndez is a multi-instrumentalist from Argentina who has a fresh ear for blending the sounds of different musics...' Todd Jenkins - www.AllAboutjazz.com
		"Fusion with a solid harmonic base, and deep rooted-ness of improviser has in Pedro Menéndez one of the most worthy exponents".
	www.pedromenendez.8k.com (198 words)

	Pedro Menéndez De Avilés Biography / Biography of Pedro Menéndez De Avilés 1450 To 1699: ...
		Pedro Menéndez De Avilés Biography / Biography of Pedro Menéndez De Avilés 1450 To 1699: Exploration and Discovery Biography
		Pedro Menéndez De Avilés 1450 To 1699: Exploration and Discovery Biography
		That settlement is now considered the oldest white settlement in the nation.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-pedro-menndez-de-avils-scit-031 (179 words)

	fomahist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		General Pedro Menéndez de Aviles, charged with removing the French, also sailed in May, arriving at the Saint Johns River in August with some 800 people, shortly after Ribault (2 on map).
		Had the British been able to seize that point, they would probably have been able to starve the city into surrender.
		Montiano therefore ordered engineer Pedro Ruiz de Olano to build a strong, stone tower.
	www.nps.gov /foma/home/fomahist.htm (2039 words)

	Outline of the Life of Pedro Menendez de Aviles
		Outline of the Life of Pedro Menendez de Aviles
		February 10 1573 Menendez named Captain General of the Great Armada
		September 17 1574 Menendez dies in Spain and is buried in San Nicolas in Aviles
	www.drbronsontours.com /Menendez.htm (148 words)

	Pedro Menendez High School - St. Augustine, Florida / FL - school information
		Pedro Menendez High School - St. Augustine, Florida / FL - school information
		This school was given a grade of "C" by the Florida Department of Education in 2005-2006.
		Florida school information (click to expand) School information by state (click to expand) School information by city (click to expand)
	www.greatschools.net /modperl/achievement/fl/5119 (486 words)

	staugustine.com: visitor's guide > history > Pedro Menendez
		Pedro Menendez de Aviles y Alonso de la Campa
		On September 9, 1565, Pedro Menendez came to shore at what was to become the first permanently occupied territory in the United States of America.
		All contents © Copyright 2002 The St. Augustine Record and Morris Digital Works.
	www.staugustine.com /visit/history/menendez.shtml (481 words)

	Pedro Menendez High School Alumni Archive
		Sherwood Schwartz, who wrote both The Brady Bunch and Gilligan`s Island TV themes, reported that he earns about $60,000 each year from those two theme songs alone.
		Welcome To The Pedro Menendez High School Alumni Archive
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	www.pedromenendezalumni.com (94 words)

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