American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . THE MASSACRE OF THE HUGUENOTS. DRAWN BY F. T. MERRILL. AMERICAN ART 133 The fierce Menendez, who commanded the Spanish forces, boasted of his wholesale slaughter,and said he had murdered his victims not as Frenchmen, but as Lutherans. A day of vengeancecame however. Gourgues, a French soldier of distinction, fitted out three small vessels, in whichhe embarked for Florida with a hundred and fifty men, mostly Huguenots. Landing north of theSt. Johns River, he allied himself with some of the Indian tribes who had suffered fr
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . THE MASSACRE OF THE HUGUENOTS. DRAWN BY F. T. MERRILL. AMERICAN ART 133 The fierce Menendez, who commanded the Spanish forces, boasted of his wholesale slaughter,and said he had murdered his victims not as Frenchmen, but as Lutherans. A day of vengeancecame however. Gourgues, a French soldier of distinction, fitted out three small vessels, in whichhe embarked for Florida with a hundred and fifty men, mostly Huguenots. Landing north of theSt. Johns River, he allied himself with some of the Indian tribes who had suffered from the oppres-sions of the Spaniards, and attacked the enemys forts. These being carried, and many of the Span-iards slain, he disposed of those who had survived the assault by hanging them to the same treeswhere they had hanged the French, and over them he placed a board inscribed, I have done thisnot as to Spaniards and Mariners, but as to Traitors, Robbers, and Murderers. ^mai.
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