Painting by Birney Lettick, from National Geographic, February 1966, Vol. 129, No. 2, pp. 212-3.Download image (jpg, 151 KB).
Menéndez's men braved the storm, marching “more than 15 leagues, more or less, all of it through marshes and desolate places,” sacking Fort Caroline in a surprise attack at dawn on 20 September 1565.
