delaware historical society jobs Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/delaware-historical-society-jobs Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:24:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Delaware: HISTORICAL OVERVIEW http://travelsfinders.com/delaware-historical-overview.html http://travelsfinders.com/delaware-historical-overview.html#respond Sun, 08 May 2016 15:45:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=203937 Efforts by Spain in the sixteenth century to establish, and later maintain, a foothold along the Atlantic coast between Florida and Chesapeake Bay a region considered vital to the protection of Spain’s successful Caribbean establishments brought the earliest Spanish-speaking peoples to present-day Delaware. In 1525 Pedro de Quejo, a Spanish slave trader, piloted a preliminary expedition composed of two caravels and some 60 crewmen for Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon, one of the Auditors of Hispaniola. The purpose was to explore the coastal area of land granted to Ayllon by the King of Spain in search of the mythical land of

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