yup as much as he can beHey GME!! Wonder what's underneath all of that trivial stuff?? Anyway, GOOD LUCK and GOOD HUNTING!! VERDE!!
As an aside, for many years, folks in the Port Royal Sound area of South Carolina searched for the "Ribault Monument"...it was believed to have been originally placed on Lemon Island---an unimportant sand spit in Port Royal Sound.
Subsequent archival research seems to indicate that the Spanish, upon founding Santa Elena, the first capital of La Florida, built on the ruins of the first French settlement at Charlesfort, present day Parris Island, SC, found the monument and shipped it somewhere. Some say it was sent directly to Spain. Others say it was shipped to Havana.
While the most likely explanation is that early French ships of exploration and colonization carried monuments of this sort as a matter of course, a crazy hypothesis is that the Ribault monument was lost in a shipwreck on its way from Port Royal Sound to Cuba. The monument is described in the literature as simply being a "pillar" with the coat of arms of the King of France inscribed upon it...if those cannon or other artifacts are Spanish...
There were five stone marble monuments brought over in 1562 with Ribault, three went back to France, one was planted in SC at Port Royal one at River may or there about, in May 1564 Cuba Governor sent Hernando Manrique de Rojas on the Nuestra Señora de la Concepcion to find and destroy the columns and forts, Rojas missed the one in Florida but found the one in SC he threw it to the ground, put it on the ship and went back to Cuba later the Monument/column was taking to Spain. We have the ship it went back on and it did not sink on the way
So the column we have must be from Fort Caroline may river Area Florida as it is the only one left, There was NO columns of the fleet from 1565, none on the manifest at all.
The theory is it was on a merchnat Spanish or english vessel trading in the area on its way to Cuba, Cuba needed Cannon at that time and Fort caroline had just been taking by the Spanish and the column was removed by the Spanish all referenced and all Fact
Another example of the Commercial Salvage community doing the best/dirty work. I'm willing to bet when it breaks in the public eye, that the state archies take credit for the historic research and the find/recovery. Funny, isn't it.
Another example of the Commercial Salvage community doing the best/dirty work. I'm willing to bet when it breaks in the public eye, that the state archies take credit for the historic research and the find/recovery. Funny, isn't it.
Article starts out the right way, glad when the news media, spotlights things without getting the Arkie community involved.