Publisher's Synopsis
Forming part of the "Seed of a Nation" series, this volume focuses on Florida. More than 100 years before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, Spanish adventurers explored the peninsula of Florida. They founded St. Augustine and fiercely protected their claims to this "flowery land". But the English and then Americans sent in more settlers and Spain was forced to cede Florida to the United States in 1819. In 1845, Florida became the 27th state.
