HIST 190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jacques Le Moyne, Fort Caroline
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The threat to spanish interests took a new turn in 1562 when a group of french protestants established a small settlement they called fort caroline, north of st. augustine. With the authorization of king philip ii, spanish nobleman pedro men ndez led an attack on fort. Caroline, killing most of the colonists and destroying the fort. In the process, the spanish displaced the local timucua indians from their ancient town of seloy, which had stood for thousands of years. The timucua suffered greatly from diseases introduced by the spanish, shrinking from a population of around 200,000 pre-contact to fifty thousand in 1590. Figure 3. 3 in this drawing by french artist jacques le moyne de morgues, timucua flee the spanish settlers, who arrive by ship. Le moyne lived at fort caroline, the french outpost, before the spanish destroyed the colony in.
