Fifteen hundred settlers on Pensacola Bay — wrecked by a hurricane five weeks after landing.
Abandoned by 1561; Pensacola not resettled until 1698.
Recounts Luna's 1559-61 Pensacola Bay colony, wrecked by a hurricane and abandoned.
Broad context for Spain's repeated failures to plant a Gulf and Atlantic foothold (broad context).
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