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42. Bastro, was shortly afterwards killed on making an effort to land. The survivor returning to Cuba. [[underlined]] 1552. A Spanish plate fleet from Vera Cruz, bound for Spain, was wrecked on the Gulf coast of Florida. Out of a thousand persons only three hundred reached the shore, and all perished save one, who finally succeeded in escaping to Mexico. [[underlined]] 1559. An emigration took place to Pensacola Bay from Vera Cruz, but the attempt at settlement was unsuccessful, and the last Spaniard returned to Mexico in 1561. [[underlined]] 1565. Pedro de Menendez took final possession of Florida, in the name of the king of Spain, by the occupation of St. Augustine. [[underlined]] 1562-8. The attempt at colonization on the St. Johns River, by the French Huguenots, and the bloody struggles between them and the sanguinary bigot Menendez, began and closed.