Tuesday, 25 August 2009 19:05
Columbus and the Land of Ayllon
VHS, 30 min., 1993
Thirty-four years after Columbus landed in the "New World," Spanish lawyer Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon found the first American colony. Ayllon brought six hundred men, women and children, with horses, pigs, equipment and food, to settle the Georgia coast. Ayllon's ill-fated colony ended after a few short weeks but it pre-dated Saint Augustine's founding by thirty-nine years.
Thirty-four years after Columbus landed in the "New World," Spanish lawyer Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon found the first American colony. Ayllon brought six hundred men, women and children, with horses, pigs, equipment and food, to settle the Georgia coast. Ayllon's ill-fated colony ended after a few short weeks but it pre-dated Saint Augustine's founding by thirty-nine years.
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History