Summary of H. A. Ironside's The 400 Silent Years

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#1 Columbus brought pigs from Cuba to Florida, which may have been descendants of the pigs Queen Isabella had enjoined Columbus to take with him on his second voyage.

#2 In 1565, the Spanish attacked Fort Caroline, France’s first settlement in the Americas, near present-day Jacksonville. They easily overwhelmed the small fort, killing 132 soldiers and civilians. The forty or so French survivors were forced to watch as Spanish soldiers flicked the eyeballs of the French dead with the points of their daggers.

#3 The ill-fated inhabitants of Fort Caroline were not Lutherans at all, but Huguenots, French Protestants who followed the teachings of John Calvin. They had built and settled Fort Caroline more than a year earlier.

#4 The French colony in Florida was eventually captured by the Spanish in 1565. The remaining French survivors were brought to the same inlet, where they were executed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Aug 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822583122

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Insights on H. A. Ironside's The 400 Silent Years

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Columbus brought pigs from Cuba to Florida, which may have been descendants of the pigs Queen Isabella had enjoined Columbus to take with him on his second voyage.

#2

In 1565, the Spanish attacked Fort Caroline, France’s first settlement in the Americas, near present-day Jacksonville. They easily overwhelmed the small fort, killing 132 soldiers and civilians. The forty or so French survivors were forced to watch as Spanish soldiers flicked the eyeballs of the French dead with the points of their daggers.

#3

The ill-fated inhabitants of Fort Caroline were not Lutherans at all, but Huguenots, French Protestants who followed the teachings of John Calvin. They had built and settled Fort Caroline more than a year earlier.

#4

The French colony in Florida was eventually captured by the Spanish in 1565. The remaining French survivors were brought to the same inlet, where they were executed.

#5

The story of the first settlers in Florida, who were Huguenots, is an unexpected one. They were sent to America in 1564 to establish a colony, but were attacked by Spanish Catholics.

#6

The history of the Americas begins with the Spanish. In 1469, the teenage cousins Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile were married, and they unified several small kingdoms into a nation.

#7

Isabella was born in 1451, during a time of great intrigue and infighting among the Spanish kingdoms and the emerging nations of Europe.

#8

Isabella was the daughter of King Enrique IV, and she was brought to the court of her older half brother, King Enrique IV, who was notorious for his open homosexuality. She was named heir to Castile’s throne in 1469.

#9

The marriage between Ferdinand and Isabella was a political marriage of convenience that became a richly