Havana and St. Augustine, one week apart in good sailing weather, had been forced into frequent contact by the necessities of defense and supply. For several years it appeared that the Florida settlements, younger than either Havana or Santiago by half a century, were going to take the lead, especially when the two governorships were combined in the person of Pedro Menendez in 1567, and Havana became little more than a supply depot for the adelantado’s Florida garrisons and Indies Fleet. It received a subsidy for troops the same year Florida did, but for only a third as many. In the Menendez clan, loyalties were wholly personal. The Asturians’ allegiance to Philip II did not extend to cooperation with his servants or compliance with his bureaucracies.