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Ribault, Jean 1520-
Navigator; born in Dieppe, France, in 1520; first appeared in history as c nt to destroy all Protestants he could find.
Ribault had been advised of the expedition of Menende ives, returned to the shore farther south.
Ribault returned to the St. John, when, contrary to t e fact that its garrison had been destroyed.
Ribault divided his force of 500 men, about 200 of th the advance in the march, the remainder, with Ribault, following soon afterwards.
The latter were y.
Very soon after this treacherous massacre Ribault, with the rest of his followers, reached the , and by the same treacherous method disarmed Ribault and his friends.
Ribault was shown the pile Ribault was shown the pile of unburied corpses of his men. A ransom of 100,000 ducats was offered for the lives of Ribault andRibault and his friends.
As before, they were betrayed, and Ribault and all but six or eight of his companionRibault and all but six or eight of his companions were murdered, Sept. 23, 1565. They were put to the sword, Menendez wrote, judging this to be exp
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St. Augustine,
A city in Florida; founded by Menendez in 1565; population in 1900, 4,272.
When Menendez gave up the chase of the Frenchmen under Ribault (see Huguenots), he turned back towards the Florida coasts, entered an estuary in a boat manned by six oarsmen, leaving his large flag-ship at anchor outside, and, accompanied by his chaplain, Mendoza, and followed by other boats filled with gentlemen and ecclesiastics, he went ashore,. while trumpets sounded, drums beat, cannons thundere of Philip of Spain.
With such consecration he laid the foundation of the city of St. Augustine.
From that spot he marched to the destruction of the Huguenots on the St. John, and there the unfortunate Ribault and his followers were slain (see Ribault, Jean). Such was the human sacrifice at the founding of St. Augustine, now the oldest.
town in the United States.
Oglethorpe's expedition against St. Augustine.
Soon after the beginning of Queen Anne's War (see Anne, Queen), Governor Moo