FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH EXPLORERS
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hunger
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homesick
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no money
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Menéndez then executed Ribault and several hundred Huguenots (Francisco Lopez de Mendoza Grajales, chaplain to the Spanish forces, identifies them as “all Lutherans, ” and dates their execution 29 September 1565, St. Michael’s Day.)
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1565 King Philip II of Spain appointed Pedro Menéndez de Avilés to command an expedition to Florida. Menéndez was ordered to destroy Fort Caroline and establish fortified settlements along the coast to assist the Spanish treasure fleet. A posthumous sketch of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés from 1791.
Detailed explanation-3: -Fort Matanzas National Monument is on the east coast of Florida, about 14 miles south of St. Augustine, on a narrow passage of water that connects the Matanzas River to the Atlantic Ocean.
Detailed explanation-4: -The European history of Fort Matanzas National Monument begins with an incident almost 200 years before the construction of the fort at Matanzas-the Spanish massacre of French forces in 1565.