But the King of Spain, hearing that the French were trespassing, sent an expedition under Menendez (ma-nen'-deth), who founded St.Augustine in 1565.

There Ribault, who had returned and joined Laudonniere, attempted to attack the Spaniards.
But a hurricane scattered his ships, and while it was still raging, Menendez fell suddenly on Fort Caroline and massacred men, women, and children.

A few days later, falling in with Ribault and his men, who had been driven ashore south of St.Augustine, Menendez massacred 150 more.[1] For this foul deed a Frenchman named Gourgues (goorg) exacted a fearful penalty.

With three small ships and 200 men, he sailed to the St.Johns River, took and destroyed the fort which the Spaniards had built on the site of Fort Caroline, and put to death every human being within it.
[Footnote 1: The story of the French in Florida is finely told in Parkman's _Pioneers of France in the New World_; also J.Sparks's _Life of Ribault_; Baird's _Huguenot Emigration_.] [Illustration: Gateway at St.Augustine[2]] [Footnote 2: Remaining from the Spanish occupation of Florida.] SUMMARY 1.

From 1492 to 1513 the Europeans who came to America explored the coasts of North and South America, but did not go inland.
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