A history of the United States . ene de Laudon-niere established anothersettlement on the , but the colonistswere disorderly. Someof them mutinied and at-tempted to plunder theSpaniards in the WestIndies. Learning thus ofthe existence of the Frenchsettlement, the Spaniardsunder Menendez organizeda strong expedition againstit. The French had mean-while been reenforced by afleet under Ribaut and bySir John Hawkins, theEnglish slave-trader andfamous fighter. But in spite of these reenforcements theFrench did not use their opportunities, and their vessels weresoon scattered by a storm. The
A history of the United States . ene de Laudon-niere established anothersettlement on the , but the colonistswere disorderly. Someof them mutinied and at-tempted to plunder theSpaniards in the WestIndies. Learning thus ofthe existence of the Frenchsettlement, the Spaniardsunder Menendez organizeda strong expedition againstit. The French had mean-while been reenforced by afleet under Ribaut and bySir John Hawkins, theEnglish slave-trader andfamous fighter. But in spite of these reenforcements theFrench did not use their opportunities, and their vessels weresoon scattered by a storm. Then Menendez, who had justestablished himself at St. Augustine (1565), destroyed theFrench fort and killed or captured nearly all the Frenchmen atthat time in Florida. St. Augustine, the oldest town in theUnited States, still stands to record this savage warfare. Alittle later a French soldier. Dominie de Gourges, partlyavenged his countrymen; but St. Augustine was not taken,and the French crown relinquished all claims to Champlain. 20 DISCOVERY. [§16 16. Champlain. — In the progressive reign of Henry IV. ofFrance, attention was once more paid to Canada. After a colonyhad failed on the Isle of Sable, near Nova Scotia, and anotherhad all but come to grief in Nova Scotia proper, Samuel de Cham-plain ^ succeeded in establishing a permanent post at Quebec in1608. In a few years, owing to the zeal of the Jesuit mission-aries and the enterprise of the fur-traders, the French hadobtained a firm grip upon Canada and were rapidly pushinginland. THE ENGLISH EXPLORERS. 17. English Explorations during the Reign of Elizabeth. — The English, unlike the French, were at first content with their fisheries in Newfoundland;and it was not until after1570 that they seriously tookpart in the affairs of tardiness was probablyat first due to the marriageof Henry VIII. with a Span-ish princess, then to theirown internal troubles inconsequence of the Popescondemnation of Henry
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