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Old 15th May 2015, 07:54 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall
As Ulfberth has well noted, what a perfect and colorful history for a beautiful example of these dusagge. It is very interesting that St. Augustine, a key port in the 'Spanish Main' and the busy trade networks of those times, would be a repository for a wide spectrum of arms from many countries.
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Florida changed hands a few times. Many French, Spanish, English, and "Indian" relics went into the ground here. And many different cultures came as labor. For example the Greeks:

http://orthodoxhistory.org/2009/12/2...-florida-1768/
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