END OF VOL. II
FOOTNOTES
THE FOUNDING OF ST. AUGUSTINE AND THE MASSACRE BY MENENDEZ—
THE ACCOUNT BY JOHN A. DOYLE
[ [1] ] From Doyle's "English Colonies in America." By permission of the publishers, Henry Holt & Co.
[ [2] ] Coligny's first attempt was made in 1555, when two shiploads of Huguenot immigrants (290 persons), under Villegagnon, were sent to Brazil. This settlement was soon destroyed by the Portuguese.
Menendez's expedition of 1565 followed the earlier Spanish expeditions by Ponce de Leon, Narvaez and De Soto. It sailed from Cadiz and comprized eleven ships. Twenty-three other vessels followed, the entire company numbering 2,646 persons. The aim of Menendez was to begin a permanent settlement in Florida. On arrival he found a colony of French Huguenots already in possession, having been there three years. A conflict was inevitable, and one which forms a most melancholy chapter in the early history of American colonization. Menendez hanged Huguenots, "not as Frenchmen, but as heretics," while Gourgues hanged Spaniards "not as Spaniards, but as traitors, robbers and murderers." After the conflicts closed the Spaniards maintained themselves in St. Augustine until 1586, when St. Augustine was completely destroyed by Sir Francis Drake. Two years later the Armada of Spain was overthrown in the English Channel, largely as the work of Drake.
[ [3] ] In the valley of the St. Lawrence as described in Volume I.
[ [4] ] St. Quentin is a town in northeastern France, near which on August 10, 1557, the army of Philip II, Spain, won a great victory over the combined armies of France and England.
THE FOUNDING OF ST. AUGUSTINE AND THE MASSACRE BY MENENDEZ—
MENDOZA'S ACCOUNT OF THE MASSACRE