America's Untold Story

Name: America's Untold Story
Released: 2017-12-26T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Jimmy Smits

TV Show · Special Interest

The first permanent European settlement in the United States was founded two generations before the Pilgrims arrived in 1565.

2017 · 56m

EPISODE 1

Struggle to Survive

We travel to Spanish archives to hear the firsthand accounts written in diaries discovered in the Archives of the Indies and in a private collection.
EPISODE 2

Men of God, Men of Greed

By 1607 when Jamestown was founded, St Augustine was undergoing a renewal, but the English were ready to attack.
EPISODE 3

The British Are Coming

In 1763 Spain ceded Florida to England in order to keep its port of Havana. The entire city of St Augustine fled to Cuba and Mexico to avoid British rule.
EPISODE 4

The 14th and 15th Colonies

The British divided Florida into two parts, the 14th and 15th colonies. In 1812 the Patriot's War began, and Florida became US territory.