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Identifier: popularhistoryof00brya (find matches)
Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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f these incidents. 2 History and Antiquities of St. Augustine, Florida. By George H. Fairbanks, New York,1858. ^ MS. Letter of Menendez. Parkmans Pioneers. 1565.) FOUNDING OF ST. AUGUSTINE. 213 then had leisure to look after the other interests of his colony, at themouth of the River of Dolphins. He had landed at this gt. Augus-spot on the 8th of September, after his unsuccessful chase *i»ebuiit.of the French ships from the River of May. It v^as here that Ribaulthad followed to attack him, when his fleet was scattered by the tem-pest, and finally shipwrecked. Menendez had gone on shore and takenformal possession of the country in the name of the King of Spain,with military pomp and religious solemnity; a priest meeting him atthe waters edge, chanting a Te Deum^ and bearing a crucifix, whichthe soldiers knelt before and kissed with devout thankfulness. TheIndians watched these mysterious proceedings with simple wonder ;but they received the strangers with great kindness, and gave them
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Laying out of St. Augustine. the house of a chief, called Selooe, for immediate shelter. This wasmade the nucleus of a fort; a ditch was at once dug around it, and arampart of earth and fascines raised. It was the first permanentEuropean settlement within the present boundaries of the UnitedStates, and called by Menendez, St. Augustine, because on the festivalday of that saint — the 28th of August — the Spanish fleet had comein sight of the coast of Florida, and run into the mouth of this river. 214 FRENCH AND SPANISH IN FLORIDA. (Chap. IX. From this point, a few days later, he had marched upon Fort Caro-line, and then to the massacres at Matanzas Inlet; and here he hadreturned with a sense of security thus frightfully purchased, to founda state. Not a month had elapsed since the fleet of Ribault sailed into theRiver of May, with streaming banners, amid the firing of guns, greatand small, the hearty cheers for a voyage happily finished,the^Tench tlic shouts of joy at an unexpected

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