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Identifier: popularhistoryof00brya (find matches)
Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ghter.The panic-stricken Frenchmen, aroused from sleep by the TtSoftheSpanish w^ar-cry, confused by the darkness and by the sud- ^^*°*^denness of the attack, sought only, each for himself, to escape and findshelter in the woods and swamps. Neither sex nor age was spared,according to the French accounts; but the Spanish relations declarethat quarter was given to the women, and children under fifteen years 208 FRENCH AND SPANISH IN FLORIDA. (Chap. IX. of age. Some were taken prisoners, apparently only from a refinementof cruelty, for they were all hanged a few hours later. Over theirheads Menendez put this inscription, I do this, not as to Frenchmen,but as to Lutherans. The whole number thus massacred in the name of religion was onehundred and forty-two. Those who escaped made their waythrough the marshes to the two vessels that Ribault had leftbehind him. Among these was Laudonniere, who wasfound the morning after the attack, held up by a soldier, in water to Survivorsof theslaughter,
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Rescue of Laudonniere. the arm-pits, where they had passed the night. When this wretchedremnant of the colony was rescued, the vessels, which a nephew of Ri-bault commanded, sailed for France without waiting for tidings of theexpedition to the River of Dolphins. 1565.) FATE OF THE WRECKED FRENCHMEN. 209 Thus far Menendez was crowned with complete success. We owe,he said, to God and His mother, more than to human strength, thisvictory over the adversaries of the Holy Catholic Religion.^ Not aheretic Frenchman was left alive on the River of May, and that eventhe memory of them might be wiped out, the names of the river andthe fort were changed to San Mateo by these devout Spaniards, thenearest saint-day, that of St. Matthew, being on the 21st day of Sep-tember. Taking fifty soldiers with him Menendez returned to hisencampment at the mouth of the River of Dolphins. A messenger hadbeen sent forward to announce his success and his coming, and thewhole camp turned out to meet him in process

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