The Minorcan Colony in Florida
by
Kenneth H. Beeson Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2006
With great anticipation, more than twelve hundred settlers�the majority from the Mediterranean island of Minorca�arrived on the eastern shore of Florida, south of St. Augustine, in 1768 to begin a new life at the colony of New Smyrna. Despite the initial successes of the colony, political strife...