Dominique (or Domingue) de Gourgues (1530–1593) was a French nobleman and soldier. He is best known for leading a privateer attack against Spanish Florida in 1568, in retaliation for the no quarter given after the capture of Fort Caroline and the subsequent Massacre at Matanzas Inlet. He was a captain in King Charles IX's army.
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Dominique (or Domingue) deGourgues (1530–1593) was a French nobleman and soldier. He is best known for leading a privateer attack against Spanish Florida...
Caroline and built their own fort on the same site. In April 1568, DominiquedeGourgues led a French force which attacked, captured and burned the fort...
were killed in the subsequent massacre at Matanzas Inlet. In 1568, DominiquedeGourgues further explored the area, and, with the help of his allies the...
Yufera is listed among the towns that allied with French explorer DominiquedeGourgues against the Spanish in 1567. In the 17th century, Yufera was allied...
Paul Gaffarel; DominiquedeGourgues; René Goulaine de Laudonnière; Nicolas Le Challeux, baron de Fourquevaux (Raymond) (1875). Histoire de la Floride Française...
shipwrecked Huguenots on October 12, 1565 French raiders led by DominiquedeGourgues destroy Fuerte San Mateo and murder all its defenders on April 27–28...
as Fuerte San Mateo on September 29, 1565 French raiders led by DominiquedeGourgues destroy Fuerte San Mateo and murder all its defenders on April 27–28...
scientific mission at the request of King Francis I of France. DominiquedeGourgues, the hero of Florida County, captured while traveling from Europe...
incursion.[citation needed] In 1568 French nobleman-turned-pirate DominiquedeGourgues avenged Ribault. He and 200 men attacked Spanish-held Fort Caroline...
European colony in the continental United States. In 1568, Frenchman DominiquedeGourgues recaptured Fort Caroline. In 1569, the Spanish built a watchtower...
René Goulaine de Laudonnière, Jean Ribault, and DominiquedeGourgues to present-day Florida; those of Durand de Villegaignon and Jean de Léry to Brazil;...
and Potanou. Due to the cruelty of the Spanish, when Frenchman DominiquedeGourgues came to revenge Jean Ribaut, Olotoraca formed an alliance with him...
when they were finished. In late April 1568, the French soldier, DominiquedeGourgues, who had outfitted an expedition from France at his own expense...
1567 the Saturiwa, together with the Tacatacuru and others, aided DominiquedeGourgue in an assault on Spanish-held Fort Caroline. Eventually, however...
1565, Menéndez de Avilés attacked Fort Caroline, killing most of the French Huguenot defenders.: 28 Two years later, DominiquedeGourgue recaptured the...
Castelmayran had several co-seigneurs over time, among whose Nicolas deGourgues, the last one before the French Revolution. Before 1789, Castelmayran...
toward them. Both groups were among those Native Americans who aided DominiquedeGourgue in his raid on the Spanish in 1567. After the Tacatacuru made peace...
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly features a flashback in which Jean-Dominique Bauby travels to Lourdes with a girlfriend and walks through the streets...
Baroque marble canopy, the implementation of which has been attributed to Dominique Ferrère [fr].[citation needed] One can still see the ceiling painted by...
Saint-Germain-des-Prés, cathedrals such as Notre-Dame de Paris and hotels such as the Hôtel de Crillon. As of 2011 there were 1,816 monuments listed,...
Hôtel de la présidente deGourgues, 53 rue Saint-Dominique, Paris (reconstructed) Hôtel of Mlle Guimard, Chaussée-d'Antin, Paris (destroyed) Maison de Mlle...
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