What to see in America . Johns Bluff. When the Spanish sovereignlearned of this colony, he promptly dispatched PedroMenendez in eleven vessels with 2600 men to exterminateit. Menendez entered an inlet on the coast on St. Augus-tines Day in 1565 and gave the saints name to a fortifiedsettlement he established there. Shortly afterward he ledan expedition against Fort Caroline and wiped it a French fleet, that had planned to attack theSpaniards, had been wrecked farther down the coast, butmost of those on board got to the shore in two parties, oneof about two hundred and the other t
What to see in America . Johns Bluff. When the Spanish sovereignlearned of this colony, he promptly dispatched PedroMenendez in eleven vessels with 2600 men to exterminateit. Menendez entered an inlet on the coast on St. Augus-tines Day in 1565 and gave the saints name to a fortifiedsettlement he established there. Shortly afterward he ledan expedition against Fort Caroline and wiped it a French fleet, that had planned to attack theSpaniards, had been wrecked farther down the coast, butmost of those on board got to the shore in two parties, oneof about two hundred and the other three hundred and fifty,and began to make their way toward Fort Caroline. Thesmaller party arrived at INIatanzas Inlet, twenty miles southof St. Augustine, and camped, unable to cross. Menendezcame to their aid with boats, but after getting them to thenorth side of the inlet treacherously slew all except treated one hundred and fifty of the larger party inthe same way, sparing only five. The rest of this party. IN Fort Marion 1S8 AVhat to See in America
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