Joe wrote:
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just deport? Spaniards would hunt down and savagely massacre any
"illegals" found living in "theitr land" even though such "illegals"
were actually thousands of miles away in their own independent
society.
from the book "North American Exploration", by Michael Golay,
copyright 2003
page 169
After sailing from Spain by way of Puerto Rico, Menendez arrived off
Florida's Atlantic shore on August 28, 1565, with five ships carrying
some eight hundred persons. There he founded Saint Augustine, while at
the same time brutally killing, capturing, and driving out the French
under Philip II's order.
http://www.folger.edu/institute/jamestown/c_parr.htm
When the English settled at Jamestown, they were constantly on the
lookout for a Spanish attack against their foothold in the New World.
They knew how Spain had responded to previous challenges to its claims
made under the Papal Donation of 1493, including Pedro Men=EF=BF=BDndez's
massacre of Frenchmen in La Florida in 1565.
from the book "Spanish Texas", by Gerald Ashford, copyright 1971.
page 174
Nolan was not the first American to enter Texas, but he was by far the
most important up to his time. Most of the handful of others who dared
cross the border in the late 18th Century were either driven back or
carried away to the mines of interior Mexico. To cross the Spanish
iron curtain of that day, without a special license from the King of
Spain, was in fact a capital offense.
from the book "North American Exploration", by Michael Golay,
copyright 2003
page 105
Explorers of the gulf coast and Greater Florida included Angel de
Villafane, Guido de Lavazares, and Alonso de Leon, who was sent to
find LaSalle's elusive colony on the Texas coast.
page 209
In 1775 Domingo Del Rio conducted a Spanish military expedition to the
Orcoquiza and Bidai Indians west of the Trinity River in East Texas to
investigate reports of French incursion....
page 157
Leaving on June 24, 1588, to return to Saint Augustine, Gonzalez
sailed along the western shore of the Outer Banks and found debris
from English colonists but failed to find evidence of the English
Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island; he reported that the English had
disappeared.
page 169
After sailing from Spain by way of Puerto Rico, Menendez arrived off
Florida's Atlantic shore on August 28, 1565, with five ships carrying
some eight hundred persons. There he founded Saint Augustine, while at
the same time brutally killing, capturing, and driving out the French
under Philip II's order.
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761568357_11/Texas.html
In 1685 the French explorer Ren=EF=BF=BD-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle,=
built Fort Saint Louis near Matagorda Bay and claimed for France all
the lands drained by the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Soon
afterwards La Salle was killed on another expedition, and the men at
the fort died from disease or were killed by the native inhabitants.
The French claim alarmed the Spanish, however, and they sent several
expeditions to find and destroy the French fort. |