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var str = 'Frenchman René Goulaine de Laudonnière attemtped to establish a French colony and refuge for French Hugenots along the shore of northern Florida in 1564. With help from the local Timucuan natives they constructed a small triangular fort. The Spanish feared the French presence and in August 1565 a much larger Spanish force attacked from landward and easily overran the French fortress. Most of the defenders were killed but Laudonnière did manage to escape back to France. The exact location of the original fort is still not known and the National Park Service in 1964 constructed a small fortress based on the best known archeological evidence. The site is also home to the native Timucuan Preserve with thousands of artifacts showing native American life in this area.';
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var str = 'The Rotary Club of Tampa built this thirty-seven foot tall monument to honor World War I veterans by marking a section of the Dale Mabry Highway as a Memorial Highway. The granite and marble memorial is a Doric column topped by an eagle and has the names of the 106 Florida casualties from the First World War including the 23 who died in the sinking of the USS Tampa in 1918 engraved upon it. This was dedicated in 1921 and originally sat at the intersection of Howard and Grand Central Avenues until 1958 when it was moved to its present location after having been hit by cars several times.';
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var str = 'This small two-acre urban cemetery contains the graves of 730 servicemen and women and is maintained by the Tampa area American Legion and currently sits next to Post #5. The site contains graves of veterans from the Spanish-American War to Vietnam. The cemetery was supposedly founded when an Auxiliary Member of the American Legion learned a World War I veteran was to be buried in a pauper’s grave and instead purchased the land to begin a cemetery for veterans in the area.
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var str = 'The Florida Korean War memorial is striking and unusual. Located within a quiet park, a walkway leads the visitor to a plaza that surrounds a circle of red marble that sits vertically on its edge and around which are inscribed the words “Duty, Honor, Country”. The circle represents the purity of the Circle of Life, but the top is broken and the missing piece of the circle lies nearby with the word “Life” inscribed upon it. On the fragment are inscribed the names of the 538 Floridians who died while serving in Korea. Standing inside the upright circle is a simple military commemoration of a fallen comrade, a pair of boots with the rifle embedded tip down and the empty helmet resting on the butt of the rifle. The circle is surrounded by rough cut pieces of the same marble on which are roughly etched the names of key battle in the War and the entire floor of the plaza contains a map of the Korean Peninsula and a timeline of events.';
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var str = 'Two tall polished black granite columns are engraved with the names of the 1,869 dead and 83 missing Floridians from the Vietnam War. A large US flag is suspended between the two columns and waves majestically if not sadly while reflected in the columns.';
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var str = 'This granite monolith in front of the Old Capitol was raised by the women of Leon County Florida to honor those Floridians from Leon County who perished in the Civil War. On each side of the base are inscribed the battles in Florida and the battles in other states in which units from Florida participated. At the top of the monolith rests a Grecian urn.';
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var str = 'This granite monolith honors Captain John Parkhill who led his men into combat against Indians and was killed in action at Palm Hammock in South Florida while fighting Seminole Indians in 1857. This was during the Third Seminole War and this skirmish which resulted in a defeat for the US Army was the last engagement between the US and the Seminoles in Florida.';
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var str = 'The Florida World War II Memorial honors those 248,000 from Florida who served in the war and especially the 4,600 who lost their lives. A long narrow walkway lined with bronze, engraved plaques honoring the service and sacrifice of each of Florida’s 67 counties leads to a circular plaza in which stands an exact replica of the pillar and bronze wreath honoring Florida at the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. ';
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var str = 'Within the grounds of the St Augustine National Cemetery are three natural coquina stone pyramids and a white granite monolith that commemorate the ambush and death of Major Francis Dade and his 106 men during the Florida Seminole Wars. Dade and his men were surprised on December 28, 1835, and killed by Seminole warriors between Tampa and Ocala as the marched to support General Wiley Thompson’s men at Ocala. Their remains along with many other unidentified casualties were laid to rest in three mass graves that are marked by the stone pyramids; the pyramids were originally covered with stucco. At the end of the Seminole Wars in 1842 1,468 soldiers including Major Francis Dade who along with 106 of his men were killed in an ambush in 1835, were interred here in these graves.';
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var str = 'This national cemetery began as a post cemetery when the US occupied Florida in 1821 on what had been the site of a monastery under Spanish rule. The cemetery contains graves dating from 1828; most of these early graves are US servicemen killed while fighting Indians or from disease. At the end of the Seminole Wars in 1842 1,468 soldiers including Major Francis Dade who along with 106 of his men were killed in an ambush in 1835, were interred here in three large graves. These sites are marked by three native coquina stone pyramids which were dedicated in 1842, as well as a granite monolith marker which was erected in 1881 to honor Major Dade and his men. The graves also contain the remains of Captain George Gardiner, the first Commandant of Cadets at West Point Military Academy, and Major David Moniac, a Creek Indian and the first Native American graduate of West Point. Nearby are several plain white headstones marking the final resting places of Seminole Indian scouts who served with the Army. The cemetery became an official national cemetery in 1881. The cemetery also contains the burial site of James H. Malloy who served as director of national cemeteries for the US military in the 1960s.';
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