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Historic Facts Timeline
1066 - Normans invade England bringing their mastiffs / alaunts. 1151 - 1411 England rules Bordeaux. 1442 - The Great Italian Wars were a series of conflicts that involved Italy, France, Spain, and England. 1442 - 1713, the French occupied northern Italy while the Spanish occupied southern Italy. 1556 - From 1556 - 1649, the English Alaunt is traded with Spain, Mallorca, and Cuba. "In 1556 Phillip II became king of Spain and introduced great numbers of English Alaunts into Spain and the islands of Cuba and Majorca for the purpose of the arena." Our Dogs, by R. H. Voss 1933 1565 - "The Spanish fort established in 1565 at St. Augustine, Florida became the first permanent European settlement in the present day United States." American History Survey 1573 - "The city of Cordoba was founded in 1573." Fighting Dog Breeds, by Dr. Dieter Fleig 1625 - Dogue de Burgos de España inscribed on coin, an actual likeness of the bulldog. 1650 - 1672 "England began to press southward towards the Spanish lands." Charles Arnade St. Augustine was reinforced to become one of the strongest fortifications in north and central America. 1680 - 1700 "The real cattle boom took place about 1680 to 1702." Cattle Raising in Spanish Florida, 1513 - 1763, Charles W. Arnade, 1701-1714 "When the English invaded Florida and laid siege to the fort, cattle from the ranches were driven into the fort moat." Cattle Raising in Spanish Florida, 1513 - 1763, Charles W. Arnade, The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714). Queen Anne's War in North America. 1812 - The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida. "A complicated conflict that involved covert action by American forces, greedy border marauders from Georgia, rebels inside the province, Spanish troops and provincial white militia, free black militia, and Seminole warriors (both Indian and African American). The result of the war was devastation of the province's plantations and an end to a remarkable period of economic expansion."--Daniel L. Schafer, University of North Florida
"Most
Georgians know about the role of the English and Gen. James Oglethorpe, who
arrived with a band of settlers in 1733 to establish Savannah and the Georgia
colony, but they know little about the role of the Spanish, who had a mission on
St. Catherine's Island south of Savannah that was active from about 1575 - 1680.
There's nearly 200 years of prior European
history that had a huge bearing on the later history we attribute to the
English. What we're trying to do is give
people a healthy reminder of this longer history, which is also pretty
interesting history." Dr. Dennis Blanton Curator,
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