Posted on 10/10/2015 7:04:26 PM PDT by markomalley
It’s been done. Not particularly well, but it’s been done. Most recently in a piece with F Murray Abraham as the only actor I recognized. A fairly solid but plodding effort, it does stay fairly true to the historical facts. But for a story so ripe with dramatic potential, it fell flat.
PING!
I recommend it to everyone.
Imagine a cavalry charge of thousands of Winged Hussar.
Simply spectacular.
"Got muzlums?!?"
Fascinating history. Thanks for posting, markomalley. HOORAY Thomas King and Shoebat.com
How we made it this far BUMP!
The National Park Service provides these details of the conflict:
Spanish treasure fleets sailed along the Florida coast on their way to Spain and Fort Caroline provided a perfect base for French attacks. Worst of all to the devoutly Catholic Philip, the settlers were Huguenots (French Protestants). Despite Philip's protests, Jean Ribault sailed from France in May 1565 with more than 600 soldiers and settlers to resupply Fort Caroline.
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. The Spanish came ashore on September 8 and established and named their new village "St. Augustine" because land had first been sighted on the Feast Day of St. Augustine, August 28.
Jean Ribault sailed on September 10 to attack and wipe out the Spanish at St. Augustine, but a hurricane carried his ships far to the south, wrecking them on the Florida coast.
At the same time, Menéndez led a force to attack Fort Caroline. Since most of the soldiers were absent, Menéndez was easily able to capture the French settlement, killing most of the men in the battle. He then learned from Timucuan Indians that a group of white men were on the beach a few miles south of St. Augustine. He marched with 70 soldiers to where an inlet had blocked 127 of the shipwrecked Frenchmen trying to get back to Fort Caroline.
With a captured Frenchman as translator, Menéndez described how Fort Caroline had been captured and urged the French to surrender. Rumors to the contrary, he made no promises as to sparing them. Having lost most of their food and weapons in the shipwreck, they did surrender. However, when Menéndez then demanded that they give up their Protestant faith and accept Catholicism, they refused. 111 Frenchmen were killed. Only sixteen were spared - a few who professed being Catholic, some impressed Breton sailors, and four artisans needed at St. Augustine.
Two weeks later the sequence of events was repeated. More French survivors appeared at the inlet, including Jean Ribault. On October 12 Ribault and his men surrendered and met their fate, again refusing to give up their faith. This time 134 were killed. From that time, the inlet was called Matanzas -- meaning "slaughters" in Spanish.
The Capitol Hill Prayer newsletter recently featured a story on the anniversary of the French Huguenot massacre.
"Although they died as martyrs 444 years ago, the sacrifice of the French Huguenots in Florida still stands in eternity, and the price has been paid in the heavens for our freedom on this land, here on earth. Praise God. . . . they loved not their lives unto death." (Rev. 12:11)
The newsletter explains that a mural in the United States Capitol reveals this part of Florida's history and provides a map depicting the three oldest cities in our nation:
"An often overlooked site of interest in the U.S. Capitol is a historical map that is shown in the ceiling of the Cox Corridor in the House wing of the Capitol Building. Titled 'Fort St. Augustine,' this mural is in the ceiling of the corridor, and shows the dates of the founding of the first three cities in our land: St. Augustine (1565), Jamestown (1607), and Plymouth (1620)."
"The Spanish conquistadors founded St. Augustine, Florida on September 8, 1565 while they carried out the command of King Philip II of Spain, to 'do away with' the 'French problem' on land that Spain had claimed."
"Later, the Spanish built the Castillo de San Marcos -- a fearsome-looking fortress, designed to serve as a signal to all others that this land belonged to Spain! The Castillo de San Marcos, which took 30 years to build, is also shown on this map."
"St. Augustine, Florida, is the oldest city in America today, having been founded by Europeans who have resided there ever since."
These are significant and beautiful historic sites and, in combination with Fort Caroline in Jacksonville, and Fort Matanzas, just south of St. Augustine on the Atlantic Coast, are worth a visit.
Thus far our history of persecution has been confined principally to the pagan world. We come now to a period when persecution, under the guise of Christianity, committed more enormities than ever disgraced the annals of paganism. Disregarding the maxims and the spirit of the Gospel, the papal Church, arming herself with the power of the sword, vexed the Church of God and wasted it for several centuries, a period most appropriately termed in history, the "dark ages." The kings of the earth, gave their power to the "Beast," and submitted to be trodden on by the miserable vermin that often filled the papal chair, as in the case of Henry, emperor of Germany. The storm of papal persecution first burst upon the Waldenses in France.
Popery having brought various innovations into the Church, and overspread the Christian world with darkness and superstition, some few, who plainly perceived the pernicious tendency of such errors, determined to show the light of the Gospel in its real purity, and to disperse those clouds which artful priests had raised about it, in order to blind the people, and obscure its real brightness.
The principal among these was Berengarius, who, about the year 1000, boldly preached Gospel truths, according to their primitive purity. Many, from conviction, assented to his doctrine, and were, on that account, called Berengarians. To Berengarius succeeded Peer Bruis, who preached at Toulouse, under the protection of an earl, named Hildephonsus; and the whole tenets of the reformers, with the reasons of their separation from the Church of Rome, were published in a book written by Bruis, under the title of "Antichrist."
By the year of Christ 1140, the number of the reformed was very great, and the probability of its increasing alarmed the pope, who wrote to several princes to banish them from their dominions, and employed many learned men to write against their doctrines.
Nice addition to the thread. Thanks for the link. BTTT!
September 11, 1565 - Turkish invasion forces are defeated
and expelled from Malta by relief force led by Don
Garcia De Toledo, Viceroy of Sicily.
Knights of Malta with Spanish/Italian soldiers from Philip II of Spain and local Maltese militia had withstood 4 month siege from the Turks
September 11, 1697 - Christian force defeated Turks in Battle of Zenta inflicting massive losses
History is not repeating itself;.... sword-waving Muslims are not militarily conquering Europe. ....Rather, they are being allowed to walk right in!
Nothings changed...they will continue to perform Jihad via immigration as they have been doing
Article states...”A solid faith in Christ made it possible for the people of Vienna and Poland as well as Europe made it possible to combat Islam”....
That is not possible today with the World turning away from the God of the Bible.....to secularism and a host of other isms.
Angela Merkel - Chancellor of Germany - Daughter of a Lutheran minister
The protestant revolution may turn out to be just one more heresy in the long run. It took hundreds of years for the Cathar heresy to come to fruition and hundreds more to quash it. Lutherans and Calvinists siding with moslems is nothing new.
Good luck with that. In a hundred years the protestant heresy will be gone if the Russian Orthodox have heir way.
RE: The protestant revolution may turn out to be just one more heresy in the long run.
I think if we are to practice clear thinking, we have to differentiate what people do with the ideas they espouse.
If Lutheranism or Calvinism are heresies (i.e. outside the bounds of orthodox, historical Christianity ), then they should be critiqued on their own merits rather than what their adherents did in the past.
Same principle apples to those Roman Catholics in the medieval ages who committed atrocities in the name of the church.
Yep.
Remember who the real enemy is.
There is also the “Turkish Crescent” which is more of a cookie.
Great, thanks. F. Murray Abrahams is a great actor. Loved him as Antonio Salieri in Amaedeus.
That is an interesting item.
Will never look at a bagel or croissant the same way again.
OMG
F. Murray Abraham?
This I have to see.
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