![]() A clock is an apt metaphor for Anderson's style, present in all of his movies, but to an extreme degree here. It's like taking apart a clock to see how it works, and in so doing you no longer know what time it is. Augustine? Perhaps, as leader of his people, Menéndez knew that survival of the French in October might have meant the starvation of everyone by May.In a 2019 interview with Charente Libre, Wes Anderson said that his new movie, "The French Dispatch" was "not easy to explain." He's right, it's not, and any explanation would deconstruct it in a way to make it sound even more incomprehensible. With food already low and no chance for resupply until spring, would there have been food and shelter for all if the French had been brought back to the new village of St. Was this a cruel, cold-hearted act by the Spanish? Was Pedro Menéndez blindly following orders to rid Florida of the interlopers? Was it a religious conflict? What would the French have done to the Spanish if the hurricane had not wrecked their ships? Maybe there is even more involved. From that time, the inlet was called Matanzas - meaning "slaughters" in Spanish. On October 12 Ribault and his men surrendered and met their fate. More French survivors appeared at the inlet, including Jean Ribault. Two weeks later the sequence of events was repeated. Only sixteen were spared - a few who professed being Catholic, some impressed Breton sailors, and four artisans needed at St. Francisco Mendoza, the Chaplain accompaning Menéndez, requested the chance to offer survival for those found to be Catholics, most refused. Having lost most of their food and weapons in the shipwreck, the French did surrender. Rumors to the contrary, he made no promises as to sparing them. With a captured Frenchman as translator, Menéndez described how Fort Caroline had been captured and urged the French to surrender. He marched with 70 soldiers to where an inlet had blocked 127 of the shipwrecked Frenchmen trying to get back to Fort Caroline (5 on map). He then learned from Timucuan Indians that a group of white men were on the beach a few miles south of St. Menéndez spared the women and children and sent them by ship to Havana. Some of the inhabitants, including de Laudonniére and the artist Jacques LeMoyne, were able to escape to ships and return to France. Since most of the soldiers were absent, Menéndez was easily able to capture the French settlement, killing most of the men in the battle. Augustine, but a hurricane carried his ships far to the south, wrecking them on the Florida coast between present-day Daytona Beach and Cape Canaveral (4 on map).Īt the same time, Menéndez led a force to attack Fort Caroline. Jean Ribault sailed on September 10 to attack and wipe out the Spanish at St. Augustine" ( 3 on map) because land had first been sighted on the Feast Day of St. The Spanish came ashore on September 8 and established and named their new village "St. After a brief sea chase, the Spanish retired south to a site they had earlier reconnoitered, a Timucuan village called Seloy. ![]() General Pedro Menéndez de Aviles, charged with removing the French, also sailed in May, arriving at the Saint Johns River in August with some 800 people, shortly after Ribault ( 2 on map). Despite Philip's protests, Jean Ribault sailed from France in May 1565 with more than 600 soldiers and settlers to resupply Fort Caroline. Worst of all to the devoutly Catholic Philip, the settlers were Huguenots (French Protestants). Spanish treasure fleets sailed along the Florida coast on their way to Spain and Fort Caroline provided a perfect base for French attacks. ![]() When King Philip II of Spain learned that the Frenchman Rene de Laudonniére had established Fort Caroline in Florida ( 1 on map), he was incensed - the colony sat on land belonging to the Spanish crown.
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