road map of florida Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/road-map-of-florida Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:10:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Map of Florida http://toursmaps.com/map-of-florida.html http://toursmaps.com/map-of-florida.html#respond Thu, 12 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=204014 The experience of Spaniards in colonial Florida was one of isolation, raids by rival European corsairs and freebooters, tense relations with nomadic Indian groups, and poor funding from the Crown. Although the Crown saw Florida as important strategically, it did not invest heavily in fortifications or in the budgets of the presidios. Instead, these presidios were often marginal places where criminals served their sentences.8 By 1600 St. Augustine was the only Spanish fortification in 600 miles of coastline. In the 1610s, epidemic disease dramatically reduced Indian populations, and labor shortages were common because the Spanish had demanded a kind of

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