In today's New York Times historian Kenneth Davis reminds us of a Thanksgiving held in 1564 by French Huguenots who had established a colony in Florida, near present day Jacksonville. They had fled persecution in France.
Another party of Huguenots had escaped to South Africia.
King Philip II of Spain didn't care for these Protestants on a foreign land Spain did not occupy but claimed none the less, and sent Adm. Pedro Menendez and a fleet to slaughter the heretics. He did so with Inquisitionary zeal.
Francis Parkman chronicled the whole ugly business in his PIONEERS OF FRANCE IN THE NEW WORLD.
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Wow!
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