Expeditions of Muruelo, Cordova, Alminos, Ayllon, and Narvaez. 7 CHAPTER IV. Hernando De Soto.--An Account of his March through Florida. 18 CHAPTER V. Huguenot Settlement under Ribault. 26 CHAPTER VI. Second Huguenot Settlement under Laudonnère. 29 CHAPTER VII. The Unfortunate Expedition under Ribault.--Founding of St. Augustine by Menendez, 1565.--Attack upon the French Settlement on the St. Johns River. 37 CHAPTER VIII. Shipwreck of Ribault’s Fleet.--Massacre by Menendez. 46 CHAPTER IX. Expedition and Retaliation of De Gourges. 57 CHAPTER X. Return of Menendez.--Attempt to Christianize the Indians.--Attack upon St. Augustine by Sir Francis Drake.--Murder of the Friars. 66 CHAPTER XI. Plunder of the Town by Captain Davis.--Removal of the Yemassee Indians.--Construction of the Fort.--Building of the First Sea-wall.--Attacks of Governor Moore and Colonel Palmer. 79 CHAPTER XII. Oglethorpe’s Attack.--Bombardment of the Fort and Town.--Capture of the Highlanders at Fort Mosa.--Old Fort at Matanzas.--Monteano’s Invasion of Georgia. 89 CHAPTER XIII. The Town when delivered to the English.--Fort San Juan De Pinos.--St. Augustine as described by the English Writers in 1765 to 1775. 100 CHAPTER XIV. The Settlement of New Smyrna by the Ancestors of a Majority of the Present Population of St. Augustine.--The Hardships endured by these Minorcan and Greek Colonists.--Their Removal to St. Augustine under the Protection of the English Governor. 113 CHAPTER XV. Administration of Lieut.-Governor Moultrie.--Demand of the People for the Rights of Englishmen.--Governor Tonyn burning the Effigies of Adams and Hancock.--Colonial Insurgents confined in the Fort.--Assembling of the First Legislature.--Commerce of St. Augustine under the English.--Recession of the Province to Spain. 122 CHAPTER XVI. Return of the Spaniards.--Completion of the Cathedral.--The Oldest Church Bell in America.--The Governor’s Desire to People the Province with Irish Catholics.--Some Official Orders exhibiting the Customs of the Spaniards.--Unjustifiable Interference of the United States, during the “Patriot War.”--Florida an Unprofitable Possession.--Erection of the Monument to the Spanish Constitution. 129 CHAPTER XVII. Florida Ceded to the United States.--Attempt of the Spanish Governor to carry away the Records.--Description of St. Augustine when Transferred.--Population in 1830.--Town during the Indian War.--Osceola and Coa-cou-che.--A True Account of the Dungeon in the Old Fort, and the Iron Cages.--The Indians brought to St. Augustine in 1875. 143 CHAPTER XVIII.