Hobe Sound, Florida the area before European settlement. The Spanish pronounced Jove/Jobe as , which later evolved into the current spelling "Hobe". The earliest recorded European contact occurred in 1696 when a British ship, the barkentine (three-masted ship) "Reformation", sailing from Jamaica to Philadelphia sank close to the shore north of Jupiter Inlet, carrying 25 passengers and crew and a cargo of sugar, rum, beef, molasses, and Spanish currency. The small Quaker party, including its most notable passenger, Jonathan Dickinson, encountered and received aid from the Jove Indians. Hobe Sound received its name by 1699, according to the Florida WPA Guide. Parts of
Operation Jove 1969, Portuguese listening services captured the information of the passage of an important column with war material, in which Nino Vieira, at the same time the mythical commander of the Southern Front, was displaced, and the Commander-in-Chief of the Portuguese forces in Guinea assigned to the Battalion of Parachute Hunters n.12, the mission to intercept the guerrillas. Two parachute companies were transported by plane from Bissau to Aldeia Formosa in the South on 16 November, and from there the men were placed on the ground by helicopter. The ambush was set up on 17 November, with seventy men on a