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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-ments, of the Spaniards fifteen only, who were seized and b^und, wereleft alive. The attack was as sudden, the onslaught as furious and as irresisti-ble, the destruction more complete than when Menendez, nearly threeyears before, had fallen in the light of the early morning, amid theroar of the storm, the cries of men, and the shrieks of women and chil-dren, upon the feeble garrison of Fort Caroline. But the work was asyet but just begun, and the completeness of French vengeance was tobe made still more significant. The soldiers of the fort on the south bank of the river were at no 1 The name is spelled Olotocara, Olotacara, Olatocara, Olocotora, and Olotoraca, by dif-ferent authors. 1568.) ATTACK 01^ THE SPANISH FORT. 217 loss to understand what was befalling their comrades on the otherside. The woods were alive with Indians ; the air was filled withtheir frightful yells of anger and defiance ; to the Spaniards it wasclear from their boldness that something more than usual had given
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Death of the Sentinel. them confidence and courage, and certainly it could be no savage handthat trained the guns of the captured fort so promptly and truly as tosilence those that had been brought to bear upon the attacking party.The murderers of Ribault and his men did not need to be told thatthe white men they saw among the Indians must be French. As speedily as possibly De Gourgues embarked his men upon a ves-sel he had taken the precaution to have near at hand, to cross the river, 218 FRENCH AND SPANISH IN FLORIDA. (Chap. IX. and the Indians, too impatient to await its return for them, plungedinto the stream and swam over. The Spaniards, appalledthe Span- and bewildered by the impetuosity of an onslaught trans-ferred to their side of the river, which had evidently swepteverything before it on the other, made only a feeble attempt todefend their works, and fled for their lives. The avenging Frenchwere behind them as they abandoned their fortifications ; in the forestthe Indians me

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