Spain's legacy lives. (the Spanish explorers and the legacy left to the US)

Europe | October 1, 1993| | Copyright

It all began 501 years ago with three tiny ships. Though they carried an Italian at the helm, it was Spain who financed the adventure that began a stretch of Spanish influence in the new world that continues to this day.

About 20 years after Christopher Columbus' first voyage, another Spanish expedition set sail. Every school child in America knows that Ponce de Leon was looking for the Fountain of Youth although it's more probable he was after gold). On April 2, 1513, de Leon landed near present-day St. Augustine on the east coast of Florida. It was Easter Sunday, ...

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