The Spaniards in Florida
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Fairbanks George Rainsford. The Spaniards in Florida
PREFACE
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II. FIRST DISCOVERY, 1512 TO 1565 – JUAN PONCE DE LEON
CHAPTER III. RIBAULT, LAUDONNIÈRE, AND MENENDEZ – SETTLEMENTS OF THE HUGUENOTS, AND FOUNDATION OF ST. AUGUSTINE. 1562-1565-1568
CHAPTER IV. THE ATTACK ON FORT CAROLINE – 1565
CHAPTER V. ESCAPE OF LAUDONNIÈRE AND OTHERS FROM FORT CAROLINE. ADVENTURES OF THE FUGITIVES
CHAPTER VI. SITE OF FORT CAROLINE, AFTERWARDS CALLED SAN MATTEO
CHAPTER VII. MENENDEZ'S RETURN TO ST. AUGUSTINE – SHIPWRECK OF. A. D. 1565
CHAPTER VIII. FATE OF RIBAULT AND HIS FOLLOWERS – BLOODY MASSACRE AT MATANZAS – 1565
CHAPTER IX. FORTIFYING OF ST. AUGUSTINE – DISAFFECTIONS AND MUTINIES – APPROVAL. OF MENENDEZ' ACTS BY THE KING. OF SPAIN. 1565-1568
CHAPTER X. THE NOTABLE REVENGE OF DOMINIC DE GOURGUES – RETURN OF MENENDEZ – INDIAN MISSION – 1568
CHAPTER XI. SIR FRANCIS DRAKE'S ATTACK UPON ST. AUGUSTINE – ESTABLISHMENT OF MISSIONS – MASSACRE OF MISSIONARIES AT ST. AUGUSTINE – 1586-1638
CHAPTER XII. SUBJECTION OF THE APALACHIAN INDIANS – CONSTRUCTION OF THE FORT, SEA WALL, &c. – 1638-1700
CHAPTER XIII. ATTACK ON ST. AUGUSTINE BY GOVERNOR MOORE OF SOUTH CAROLINA – DIFFICULTIES WITH THE GEORGIANS. 1702-1732
CHAPTER XIV. SIEGE OF ST. AUGUSTINE, BY OGLETHORPE – 1732-1740
CHAPTER XV. COMPLETION OF THE CASTLE – DESCRIPTIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE A CENTURY AGO – ENGLISH OCCUPATION OF FLORIDA. 1755 – 1763 – 1788
CHAPTER XVI. RE-CESSION OF FLORIDA TO SPAIN – ERECTION OF THE PARISH CHURCH – CHANGE OF FLAGS. 1783 – 1821
CHAPTER XVII. TRANSFER OF FLORIDA TO THE UNITED STATES – AMERICAN OCCUPATION – ANCIENT BUILDINGS, Etc
CHAPTER XVIII. PRESENT APPEARANCE OF ST. AUGUSTINE, AS GIVEN BY THE AUTHOR OF THANATOPSIS – ITS CLIMATE AND SALUBRITY
CHAPTER XIX. ST. AUGUSTINE IN ITS OLD AGE. – 1565-1868
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THE interest evinced in the publication of the first edition of this volume, in 1858, under the title of History and Antiquities of St. Augustine, has induced the author to prepare a second edition for the press, under the present title, as being more exactly descriptive of that portion of the history of Florida embraced in its pages.
He hopes at no distant day to put to press the History of Florida, in a much more complete form, and embracing the chequered and various pictures of the many expeditions which sought either to found upon its shores a kingdom to satiate their ambition, or to find wealth commensurate with their desires.
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But in the meantime Menendez had by no means forgotten the errand upon which he principally came; and by inquiries of the Indians he soon learned the position of the French fort and the condition of its defenders. Impelled by necessity, Laudonnière had been forced to seize from the Indians food to supply his famished garrison, and had thus incurred their enmity, which was soon to produce its sad results.
The Spaniards numbered about six hundred combatants, and the French about the same; but arrangements had been made for further accessions to the Spanish force, to be drawn from St. Domingo and Havana, and these were daily expected.
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