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== History ==
St. Augustine is the longest continually occupied [[European]] settlement in the continental United States; a few were founded prior to St. Augustine but all failed, including the original [[Pensacola]] [[colony]] in [[West Florida]] (First founded in [[1559]]) — which was wiped out by a hurricane a mere two years after its founding, and [[Fort Caroline]] in what is today Jacksonville, Florida in 1564. The city was founded by the Spanish [[admiral]] [[Pedro Menéndez de Avilés]] on [[August 28]], [[1565]], the [[feast day]] of [[Augustine of Hippo]] (hippone it`s a ancient name of [[Annaba]] a town in north east of [[Algeria]] ), and consequently named by him '''San Agustín'''. This came 21 years before the [[England|English]] settlement at [[Roanoke Island]], in [[Virginia Colony]], and 42 years before the successful settlements of [[Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe]], [[New Mexico]], and [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]], [[Virginia]].
In [[1586]] St. Augustine was attacked and burned by [[Sir Francis Drake]]. In [[1668]] it was plundered by [[pirates]] and most of the inhabitants were killed. In [[1702]] and [[1740]] it was unsuccessfully attacked by British forces from their new [[colonies]] in the [[Carolinas]] and [[Province of Georgia|Georgia]]. The most serious of these came in the latter year, when [[James Oglethorpe]] of Georgia allied himself with Ahaya the [[Cowkeeper]], chief of the Alachua band of the [[Seminole]] tribe to lay siege to the city.
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