Summary of Ian Millhiser's Injustices

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#1 Columbus brought pigs from Cuba to Florida, and they may have been descendants of the pigs Queen Isabella had enjoined him 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, and 132 soldiers and civilians were killed. The Spanish suffered no losses.

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

#4 On October 11, the remaining French survivors, including Captain Jean Ribault, straggled north to the same inlet. They were met by Menéndez and told that the rest of their countrymen had been killed. 134 more French prisoners were ferried across the inlet and executed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Aug 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822583108

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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 1

#1

Columbus brought pigs from Cuba to Florida, and they may have been descendants of the pigs Queen Isabella had enjoined him 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, and 132 soldiers and civilians were killed. The Spanish suffered no losses.

#3

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

#4

On October 11, the remaining French survivors, including Captain Jean Ribault, straggled north to the same inlet. They were met by Menéndez and told that the rest of their countrymen had been killed. 134 more French prisoners were ferried across the inlet and executed.

#5

Fort Matanzas, a monument in St. Augustine, Florida, was built by the Spanish in 1742 to protect the city from attack. It was built near the site of the grim massacre of the few hundred French soldiers in an undeclared war of religious animosity.

#6

The history of the Spanish Empire begins with the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella in 1469. They were a remarkable couple who unified several fractious small kingdoms into a nation, eliminated the last vestiges of Islamic power in Iberia, and set Spain on a path of world domination.

#7

Isabella was born in 1451, during a time of great intrigue and infighting in Spain. The Moorish occupation of Granada, the southernmost region of Spain, was the last bastion of Islamic power on the Iberian peninsula.

#8

Isabella’s century was the first to have only one goal: la reconquista, or the removal of the heathens. She married her second cousin Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Aragon, in 1469.

#9

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