[BlueDragon]

You're talking to yourself, Cronos. You are not engaging in discussion with me at all. Looks like you could have a few dozen threads covering all the stuff you've been bring up.

Sorry, good bye.

[Cronos]

The discussion with you is simple and encapsulated in post #96

how much of this was purely religious and how much of it was purely political? the Spanish have no love for the French even then -- and the French were trying to muscle in on what Spain considered THEIRS, the Americas

your statement should read French Protestants and the Spanish Catholics

Secondly, note what you yourself posted , launching a surprise dawn attack on the Fort Caroline garrison --> an attack on a garrison. This was war

Thirdly, Philip II of Spain was a Catholic king who hated Protestants is overly simplistic. Protestantism never spread in Spain or Italy due to cultural reasons. The austereness didn't ring a bell and also the Papacy was considered close enough to "be one of their own".

Where was Philip threated by Protestantism? In the Netherlands where there was the 100 years war in which the Flemish (Dutch and northern Belgians) were fighting to be separated from Habsburg domination. The differences were political, regional, cultural and by accepting calvinism, it added another separation between the two peoples.

But did you read it?