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Menendez left Cadiz with soldiers, settlers, and clerics

Source: Historical proof of the right of the Catholic King to the territory held to-day by the British King under the name of New Georgia #558

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7. At the same time [as Laudonniere’s 2nd venture] the King of Spain had given to Pedro Menendez de Aviles the title of Adelantado. With it went the same rights and privileges as those enjoyed by the adelantados of Castile, titles to twenty-five square leagues in the territory that might be discovered and settled, the rank of Marquis for himself and his heirs, and commissions as Governor and Captain-General of Florida and its provinces, with a salary of two thousand ducats and the title of General of the Armada of the Conquest of Florida. When he was ready to start, with the necessary outfit of soldiers, families, supplies and other equipment for the purpose, the news was received in Spain that the French Huguenots had established themselves there.
8. By order of the King five hundred men, ships of his royal fleet, artillery, munitions of war, and provisions, were immediately added to the men and supplies that Pedro Menendez had ready for his enterprise, and to those he was to take on at the islands of Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, and Cuba, for which purpose his Majesty had sent orders in advance to their governors. Thereupon the King, in his Catholic zeal, and always attentive to the spread of the Holy Gospel in the Indies, first and principal object of his care, taking into consideration the pernicious results of a colony so opposed to this object, not to mention the flagrant usurpation of the right to lands previously discovered by his subjects in his royal name, ordered Menendez to go and dislodge the Calvinists from his royal domains. 
9. Pedro Menendez set out from the Bay of Cadiz on June 29, 1565, with a fleet composed of thirty-four ships and 2,646 Spaniards, with Fathers of different Orders.