The Luna Papers, 1559–1561

Marks the celebration by the modern city of Pensacola, Florida, of the 450th anniversary of Luna’s fateful colony The 1559–1561 expedition of Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano to Florida was at the time of Spain’s most ambitious attempt yet to establish a colonial presence in southeastern North America. In June of 159, eleven ships carrying some five hundred soldiers and one thousand additional colonists, including not just Spaniards but also many of Aztec and African descent, sailed north from Ver