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The Timucua community of northern Florida drives away Spanish colonizers.

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Four hundred Spanish settler-colonists attempt to establish a colony in Tampa Bay and are attacked by the Indigenous stewards of this land. The Timucua successfully force 100 of these settler-colonists back onto their boats, and the remainder scatter north, where other Native groups attack them.