From Ponce de Leon to Sir Walter Raleigh: Early European Arrivals in Southeastern North America

Few people know the events that occurred in the North American Southeast before the Pilgrims' arrival at Plymouth Rock. By 1620, the coast of Atlantic America had been extensively explored and charted by dozens of Europeans and several colonies had already been attempted. This history covers all the Spanish expeditions into Southern Atlantic America and the Gulf Coast, and the early French and English infringements into what the Spanish would ruthlessly defend as their territory.

The unvei...