Word: menendez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surprising that one who presumes to be so smart as you do should make such an egregious blunder as that on page 1 of your issue of Dec. 22 in reference to the massacre of the French under John Ribaut by the Spanish under Pedro Menendez on the shores of Florida in 1565. You say that Menendez lined the French up before a firing squad. He did nothing of the kind. He quietly slid a janeta beneath the fifth rib of each. Of course if you don't know history it is just as well to make a stab...
Investigation has shown Mr. Taylor to be right. Leader Menendez wrote a letter to his King, boasted that he put Ribaut and his men to death in the manner described by Mr. Taylor...
...Spanish, it withstood a French siege; and, under its walls, the first oranges, lemons, limes, citrons and African slaves were introduced to the U. S.; 5) Fort Matanzas, 15 miles south of Fort Marion, the scene of a massacre in 1565 when the Spanish Governor of Florida, Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles, received the surrender of 200 Huguenots and then lined them up before a firing squad...
...scene is in Moraleda, a supposed provincial capital of Spain. La Menendez, an actress, Miss Eunice Eddy '20 Garces, an actor, J. F. Lincoln '23 Don Santiago, the Governor, Walton Butterfield '20 Dona O., wife of Baldomero, Miss Katherine MacLarnie '21 Esperanza, their daughter, Miss Dorothy R. Googins '22 Don Guillermo, Bertram Little '23 Polito, in love with Esperanzo, Powell Robinson, ocC. Reguera, a man about town, F. S. Stranahan '21 Marquis of Torrelodones, from Madrid, C. S. Howard '20 Don Basilio, rector of the University, R. B. Ayer '21 Jimena, his daughter, Miss Grace Cobb '21 Belisa, his daughter...