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Menendez brought more soldiers and priests to FL
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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20. Returning from Spain, the Adelantado repaired the ruin wrought by Gourgues and rebuilt San Mateo, placing in it, with the re-enforcements he had brought, a garrison of one hundred and fifty men, with all other equipment, and augmenting with a hundred and ninety-three men that of San Felipe in Santa Elena. He then went to Havana, and from there for a third time to Spain, whence he brought new succor. Continuing indefatigably in founding settlements and, above all, in spreading Christianity, he succeeded in placing several Fathers of the Society of Jesus and other priests in various places and provinces in the interior of the continent. 23. [Bolton note: While in Spain, Menéndez arranged for more Jesuit missionaries, headed by Father Juan Bautista de Segura. They arrived just after Gourgues lad left San Mateo a heap of ruins. Father Segura and his band operated for a year at Guale and Orista and then went to Virginia, where they were soon massacred.
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