Fort Matanzas
Matanzas Inlet, Florida · 1565
Matanzas means slaughters. Menéndez had some 250 shipwrecked French Protestants killed here in 1565 after they surrendered, sparing only those who professed Catholicism.
Open on the map →Matanzas Inlet, Florida · 1565
Matanzas means slaughters. Menéndez had some 250 shipwrecked French Protestants killed here in 1565 after they surrendered, sparing only those who professed Catholicism.
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