Revising History Abou
Revising History About Thanksgiving Plymouth, Massachusetts has long claimed the first Thanksgiving after the first permanent English colony was founded by the colonists arriving on the Mayflower in 1620 and celebrating their first harvest in 1621, along with 90 Native Americans who attended. One more of those untrue “facts” that have come to be widely accepted. If you look closely at history, you easily see the reason it came to be. This Thanksgiving was first recognized as a holiday by President George Washington in 1789. Logical when you look at another “fact” we learned in history. Remember in school when we learned about the American Revolution, we were told there were 13 English colonies in what would become the United States. Not so. There were 15 colonies. After the French and
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Indian War, also known as the Seven Years War, Spain was forced to give up East Florida and West Florida to the British under the Treaty of Paris signed on February 10, 1763. However, both Florida colonies remained loyal to the king, so Washington and his new country, which had broken with its original ruler, would not want to recognize them. After the American Revolution, the 1783 Treaty of Paris returned both Florida Colonies to Spanish control.
First Permanent European Colony in America
The first permanent American colony settled by Europeans that held a Thanksgiving was St. Augustine, Florida on September 8, 1565, when Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and his 800 Spanish settlers founded the settlement of St.
