Spanish explorer and governor (1519–1574)

Pedro Menédez de Avilés, adelantado, governor and captain-general of Florida : memorial by Gonzalo Solís de Merás / first published in La Florida, su conquista y colonización por Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, by Eugenio Ruidiaz y Caravia ; translated from the Spanish with notes, by Jeannette Thurber Connor.

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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés

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