Juan Ponce De Leon: The 16th Century General Custer

[@codyparrish3383]

You have a great voice for this kind of stuff. You're easy to listen to and very clear. A lot of people have annoying mannerisms in their videos, you do not. You're straight to the point and don't add fluff.

[@HistoricalContextUSA]

Thanks for sharing.

[@sirfin44]

Just found your channel. It's awesome best content on Ponce.

[@HistoricalContextUSA]

Thanks so much! Glad you found us.

[@dubthedirector]

Can’t beat the Ponce, gotta love the Ponce.

[@HistoricalContextUSA]

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[@MrCount84]

Columbus was the most reasonable explorer irony

[@HistoricalContextUSA]

It was not what I expected as I read through everything. I hope you are enjoying the episodes.

[@sailingwithyoshi]

I live on a sailboat in charlotte harbour and i explore the surrounding islands. Ive always imagined i might find the location of ponce de leons battle with the indians. Im going this weekned ! Also i made a youtube video going to the island of the calusa indians called mound key in placida florida. Its really hard to get to but its an amazing Archaeological site to walk around. Few have been there so i feel honored to have been so many times in my life!

[@HistoricalContextUSA]

Thanks for sharing!

[@alexisnogueras9400]

Carlos is the Cacique of the Calusa Indians. The Spanish speaking native was a ship wrecked Spaniard years before that had assimilated with the Calusa

[@HistoricalContextUSA]

Thanks so much for sharing and clarifying!

[@nomadicnative2444]

I loved the fact that Caalus became Carlos. We've seen that in many instances such as the dawes roll and others.

[@AZTLANSOLDIER13]

Amazing how modern Seminoles are trying to rewrite history and act like they were always in Florida.

[@jessiicaniicole]

Thank you for the info! It was very well delivered. I just found out he is my 15th great grandfather!

[@HistoricalContextUSA]

Wow! Thanks! Great work doing all that research! Glad you enjoyed the episode!

[@mikedameron602]

Thanks for the video, however I'd like to correct or add a few comments. I'm a Florida Native, studied that history in school, and live on the west coast now. The "panhandle" of Florida is the north west extreme of Florida and not the keys area. The Indians De Leon encountered in the Charlotte harbor area were the Calusa. ..very war like and capable. There's an excellent display of their culture in Gainesville (U of F natural history museum, if you're in the area. According to several conversations I had with archeologists at the Mound Key and the Pine Island sites, (near Charlotte Harbor) there was a cultural exchange between Cuba and the Charlotte Harbor area for seasonal fishing. Later it was the spanish/indian peoples. That took place even before the Spanish arrived. It's safe to accept that the Calusa were already familiar with the tactics and intent of the Spanish. My son is currently investigating a site that produced a Spanish Real coin from that period, a large number of musket balls of about .75 caliber, indian trade beads, etc. Moreover, we've been trying to logic out where the De Leon ships would have been able to land. That area of the coast is rife with shoals, shallow water. The recent hurricane moved a lot of sand to reveal many of the artifacts. The locals believe that he landed and battled on Gasparilla Island, just north of Charlotte Harbor...but who really knows.

[@HistoricalContextUSA]

Thanks for sharing!

[@panhandlingray]

Clean water sources are very important to a community or settlement. As a native Arkansan I grew up with many counties in the state having a special spring that was said to hold healing properties. When I was a child people often had jugs of spring water on the counter of their kitchens for regular drinking. Sadly these springs are contaminated today.

[@HistoricalContextUSA]

Wow, thanks for sharing!

[@rogerrivera4191]

I was able trace back my ancestry 17 generations and found that Juan Ponce De Leon was my 16th greatGrandfather through the line of one of his daughters Maria Magdalena.

[@HistoricalContextUSA]

Wow! Great job! Thanks for sharing! I hope you found the episode helpful!

[@NathanDudani]

Thank you

[@HistoricalContextUSA]

Thanks so much for your viewership and support!

[@douglasthompson8927]

another great video

[@HistoricalContextUSA]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@climbeverest]

Sir these are incredible recounts of history, please give us your background, authority, and list your sources.

[@HistoricalContextUSA]

Thanks I have a degree in history but I use my masters in business professionally today. Today, I use the ledgers of colonial general assemblies as the back bone of my sources.

[@climbeverest]

@@HistoricalContextUSA just love your narration, thank you sir!

[@HistoricalContextUSA]

You are welcome!

[@GolfDad]

You do a great job.

[@HistoricalContextUSA]

Thank you!

[@nomadicnative2444]

So far this is good.. only thing is the "panhandle " is the top left part of Florida.. (Panama city, destin, ft Walton.. you get the picture) .. the Spanish name of Florida is La Florida (floor-e-da) Bonita.. alot of ppl make the pronunciation mistake.

[@HistoricalContextUSA]

Thank you for the comment and clarification!

[@kellyowens1868]

+ mad native + take a look at a map son. Does the Floridian peninsula look like the handle of a cast iron skilet, visually? I'm aware the extreme northwest part of Fla. is called The Florida panhandle, but as a geographic feature the entire peninsula of Fla, including about 50% of THE Fla panhandle, qualifies in every way as a "panhandle," & not simply because of it's perfect visual appearance. It may be THE panhandle of the eastern seaboard, or THE panhandle of the Atlantic coast, or the Gulf coast ... same thing. If an atlas, a dictionary of geographical terms says a "panhandle" must have at least one land border, or may not have two marine, or two maritime borders, or 2 aquatic borders; like Fla has, then I'll admit I'm wrong, & delete this post if you like. I'm almost certain Florida itself is often refered to as a "panhandle" in the geographic sense, by many people. They could all be using it incorrectly, regardless of what I think, & you'd stll be right as rain. Let me know if you find those stipulations in any kind of dictionary. If you don't think this guy knows the extreme northwestern part of the state, that protrudes westward along the Gulf coast, is officially called THE Florida panhandle, I don't think you're paying enough attention to the big picture. Calling that nothing burger, that may not hold up to a definition check, a problem ... in the grand scheme of things, when 99.9% of folks totally understood his reference in the context that he used the term, with virtually no one confused by his usage, & thinking he was refering to the uniquie shape of a US State named Florida that will not EXIST in any meaningful form related to Florida's current border as a US state for another 200, to 300 years

[@juliopadua641]

The correct name he gave to his "island " was .. ~la tierra de la Pascua Florida .

[@Scottadamsfan3481]

@@kellyowens1868wow you are dumb

[@AZTLANSOLDIER13]

And the panhandle stretched all the way to Louisiana originally. To this day the eastern Parishes in LA are called the Spanish parishes

[@erho2967]

Great!!

[@HistoricalContextUSA]

Thanks. I appreciate you watching and commenting.

[@JavierBrent]

First European in later on USA. From Spain and Puerto Rico.

[@HistoricalContextUSA]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Scottadamsfan3481]

I don’t think the natives all died ,I think they moved and then assimilated

[@HistoricalContextUSA]

There was a lot of movement back then too.

[@AZTLANSOLDIER13]

Seminoles moved into Florida after native tribes died off

[@Scottadamsfan3481]

Think of how many turtles were there

[@HistoricalContextUSA]

Nature likely looked much different.

[@Scottadamsfan3481]

@@HistoricalContextUSA one key thing is the natives did not constantly put out the natural wildfires that kept the forests open and clean . So they had better open looking forests. We Europeans don’t understand the role of fire in cleaning the under brush and thinning the forests to we stop all fire

[@AZTLANSOLDIER13]

And native seals in Florida. Caribbean monk seal now extinct

[@AZTLANSOLDIER13]

​@@Scottadamsfan3481absolutely correct. Most of Northern florida was open pine. Lightning hit the crowns and jumped from tree to tree. The pines would survive but all hardwood scrub below would burn away. Grass grew back quickly. It wasn't until white men stopped the fires that hardwood hammocks appeared in Florida leading to a completely top to bottom change of the ecosystem

[@Scottadamsfan3481]

@@AZTLANSOLDIER13 so true ! It was amazing