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159: 116: 17: 150:. After capturing the fort and slaying nearly all his prisoners, Menéndez hung their bodies on trees, with the inscription, "Not as Frenchmen but as Lutherans." The massacre aroused indignation in France among Protestants and Catholics alike. The French king sent complaints to the Spanish court, but Menéndez and his associates, instead of being punished for the deed, received rewards and honors. 166:
Embittered by the cruelty and indignity that he had suffered from the Spaniards, de Gourgue determined to avenge the murder of his Protestant compatriots, though he was himself a Catholic. He sold everything he had and borrowed money from his brother Antoine to recruit a crew and charter three ships.
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with two hundred men, never telling them the goal of their trip. Once in Cuba he made his intentions clear, and his crew approved his choice of revenge. Gourgue then moved to attack Spanish-held Fort Caroline, which they had renamed as Fort San Mateo, enlisting the aid of Fort Caroline's old allies,
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Indians. The fort soon surrendered to de Gourgue's forces. The French and Indians killed the Spanish prisoners in retribution for Fort Caroline and other massacres of Protestants. They hanged the prisoners with the inscription, "Not as Spaniards but as murderers."
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De Gourgue's early life is not well known. He came from the old and powerful family of Gourgue, one of the most important families of the French city of
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with the president of Marigny, until restored to the king's favor in 1572. He was given command of a vessel, and participated in the
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appointed him commander of the fleet for a campaign for the crown of
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Floride française ("French Florida"), by Pierre du Val, 17th century.
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The European discovery of America: the northern voyages AD 500-1600
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Extraits de l'histoire coloniale de la Floride et de la Louisiane
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on 6 June 1568. He was received cordially by Monluc, governor of
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against Philip II. While on the journey, de Gourgue died.
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Index


privateer
Spanish Florida
no quarter
Fort Caroline
Massacre at Matanzas Inlet
King Charles IX
Bordeaux
Italian wars
Maréchal de Strozzi
Spaniards
Turks
galleys
Brazil
West Indies
Duke de Guise
Huguenots

Philip II of Spain
Roman Catholic
Protestants
Huguenots
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés
Fort Caroline
Jacksonville, Florida

Cuba
Saturiwa
Tacatacuru
Timucua

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