. A history of the United States. st of the Missis-sippi. Coronado startedin 1540 from western Mex-ico, near the Gulf of Cali-fornia. He planned to findthe Seven Cities of Cibola,which he hoped would beas full of rich booty asMexico or Peru. But theSeven Cities of Cibola existed only in the imagination of theSpaniards, who believed that centuries before seven Spanishbishops, fleeing before their heathen enemies, had crossedthe ocean and built seven great cities. The only cities thatCoronado found were the pueblos of the Indians — groupsof houses made of stone and sun-dried clay. Coronadosarmy
. A history of the United States. st of the Missis-sippi. Coronado startedin 1540 from western Mex-ico, near the Gulf of Cali-fornia. He planned to findthe Seven Cities of Cibola,which he hoped would beas full of rich booty asMexico or Peru. But theSeven Cities of Cibola existed only in the imagination of theSpaniards, who believed that centuries before seven Spanishbishops, fleeing before their heathen enemies, had crossedthe ocean and built seven great cities. The only cities thatCoronado found were the pueblos of the Indians — groupsof houses made of stone and sun-dried clay. Coronadosarmy did not give up its search until it reached the regionnow included in Kansas. This was in 1541, when De Sotowas distant only nine days march. They then turned back,a sadly disappointed band of men. St. Augustine, the Oldest Town in the United States. —•None of Coronados or De Sotos followers cared to settle inthe lands which they had explored. They had not found thatfor which they were looking. The principal Spanish settle-. Palisaded Indian Village ST. AUGUSTINE 11 ments for many years were in Mexico, Peru, and twenty years after De Sotos expedition the Spanishking sent Menendez to Florida to found settlements. Inorder to succeed he was obliged to drive away the French,who had recently built a fort near the mouth of the St. JohnsRiver. Menendezhad another reasonfor attacking them;he was a RomanCatholic and theywere Frenchmenwere Cathohcs, butthese men wereProtestants. Inthose days Catho-lics and Protes-tants could not livepeaceably French calledthe settlement FortCaroline, 1 after theking who reigned in France. In the battles which took place Menendez wassuccessful, and he either killed or drove away all the settlement which he founded in 1565 was called St. Au-gustine, and it is the oldest town in the United States. Spanish Emigrants and Indians. — The king of Spain didnot encourage his people to cross the Atlantic t
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