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[http://www.example.com link title]'''America's First Settlement''' is a slogan used by the [[City of Pensacola]] in reference to the [[1559]] [[Luna expedition|expedition]] by Don [[Tristan de Luna]] that established the first European presence within the current United States. However, the colony was abandoned after being devastated by a [[1559 hurricane|hurricane]], and six years later [[Wikipedia:St. Augustine, Florida|St. Augustine]] became the oldest continuously occupied European city on the continent.
The phrase is found on several signs that welcome visitors to [[downtown Pensacola]], despite the fact that Luna is believed to have settled further west, outside [[Pensacola city limits|city limits]], on or near [[barrancas|the bluff]] where [[Fort Barrancas]] now sits.
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The first European settlement in what is now the United States was not near Pensacola. In 1526, more than three decades before the de Luna expedition, another Spanish explorer named Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon with an expedition ofthree ships carrying 600 settlers and 100 horses, established a settlement on the coast of what is present-day Georgia or South Carolina.This settlement was called San Miguel de Gauldape. "San Miguel de Gualdape was the first European settlement inside what is now United States territory, founded by Spaniard Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón in 1526" [[Categoryhttp:Tourism slogans]//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Miguel_de_Gualdape]