USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Augustine, 1586. Five years after leading the first English circumnavigation of the globe in 1577–1580, Sir Francis Drake led a raid against Spanish settlements in the Caribbean including Santiago, Santo Domingo, and Cartagena, as well as St. Augustine (in present-day Florida).

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1577 Indians attacked the settlement and burned many of the houses. The entire town and fort were destroyed again in 1586, when the English privateer Francis Drake burned St. Augustine to the ground (fortunately making a map of the town before he did so).

Detailed explanation-3: -Totally outgunned and outnumbered, the Spanish defenders and townsfolk fled into the swamps and marshes. Sir Francis Drake took anything of value and burned the town to the ground.

Detailed explanation-4: -St. Augustine was founded on September 8, 1565, by Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Florida’s first governor. He named the settlement “San Agustín", as his ships bearing settlers, troops, and supplies from Spain had first sighted land in Florida eleven days earlier on August 28, the feast day of St. Augustine.