Most of the French shipwreck survivors surrendered, hoping for mercy from Menéndez.
Surrender
Painting by Stanley Meltzoff, from National Geographic, February 1966, Vol. 129, No. 2, pp. 216-7. Download image (jpg, 165 KB).

Most of the beleaguered French shipwreck survivors surrendered unconditionally, hoping for mercy from Menéndez. He showed none, writing the King: “And I had their hands tied behind them and put them to the knife.” As many as 350 men were executed.

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