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National Geographic : 1966 Feb
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Dune of doom crests above the sea as steel-willed Menendez orders the execution of the red-bearded Frenchman Ribault and his soldiers, shipwrecked south of St. Augustine during the hurricane (pages 212-13). Finding a large force of French men marooned on a peninsula, Menendez divided the enemy into groups of ten and ferried each small party across an in let. Then they were bound and marched behind a dune, to be put to the sword. The massacre ended the French threat to Florida but gave the inlet its grim name-Matanzas, meaning "slaughters." Halo of vines crowns a quiet chapel at the site of St. Augus tine's Mission of Nombre de Dios, founded by secular priests in 1565. A century later, Franciscan friars had built chains of Indian missions westward and northward, and could count 26,000 converts to Christianity. 216
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