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• Twice in 1560's Huguenots (French Protestants) planted colonies on south Atlantic coast
• 1565 the second colony near modern day Jacksonville was destroyed by a Spanish expedition led by Pedro Menendez de Aviles
• Menendez set up small outposts that he named St. Augustine to ensure Spanish domination
• 1598 Juan de Onate led a group of 500 soldiers and settlers to New Mexico.
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