If you were to ask people the reality of the first genocide in America, the self hating ignorant would point to some Indian tribe and come up with a fantasy of innocents, but the reality is the first genocide in America was carried out on a French American settlement in the year 1562 on St. John's Bluff by the same river in Florida.
In that year, French Protestants being persecuted in Europe set sail for a place which Jean Ribaut had been sent on a mission by Admiral Coligny to found a settlement where Hugeunots could be free from state religious persecution.
Ribaut proclaimed upon landing the site for the France and erected a marker to her King Louis, and returned for the Protestants eager for life away from the despots of Europe.
The settlers built a Fort and named it Caroline. They tried in Christian virtue to be friendly with the Indians, but the Indians having experience with the Spaniards, would have none of it, and in the end the Christians took Indians hostages in order to try and gain an exchange of food in order to survive as they awaited more ships from France with supplies.
The Indians retaliated on the French by informing the Spanish of this peaceful settlement on the bluff. Pedro de Menedez who was in charge of settling the West Indies had landed on shore to the reports and promptly with his armed men went with Indian guides through the forests and swamps on the unprotected fort.
Every man, woman and child was slaughtered in the genocide of the French American group.
Menedez then erected a stone and carved on it:
"Not to Frenchmen, but to Lutherans and heretics."
Yes the first slaughter in American genocide was by Catholic Spaniards and Shaman Seminoles upon Lutherans in America, and it was a deliberate mass murder aimed at Protestants in France who were set free in Christ by Martin Luther.
The story though did not end there nor the slaughter.
The French Lutherans having arrived back to supply the colonists ran a ship aground on shore, by which the leader who with a small group had been away, in the name of Laudônière. He and his band made it to the French squadron just arrived.
Menedez upon receiving information about the ship run aground went in pursuit and the French led by Ribaut agreed on the word of the Spaniard to surrender in protection of their lives. No sooner though had the French Lutherans laid down their swords than the Spanish murdered every one of them.
Laudônière with his survivors made it back to Catholic France, but the King would do nothing for them, and Catholic French deemed the Hugeunot Lutherans fate as well deserved.
Other Lutherans though were not of the same mind and a Breton gentleman named Dominic de Gourgue embarked upon mission of avenging these Christians. Having sense to not voice the mission, as the King would have stopped it, the band of avengers stated they were sailing for the coast of Africa, but were soon on the way to Fort Caroline.
Menedez had taken over the French possession and brought in his own Spanish Catholics to occupy it, so when the Lutherans arrived, de Gourgue landed and made friends with the Indians who this time were more than happy with ill Spanish mistreatment of them to guide the French Lutherans to Fort Caroline, where de Gourgue and his followers surprised the fort and killed every Spaniard there.
De Gourgue erected his own monument there with the inscription:
"Not to Spaniards, but to robbers and murderers."
Thus ends the reality of the end of the first Lutherans in America, in the first genocide as a matter of record.
nuff said
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