Pre-1600: Warfare: Publications
Pre-1600: Warfare: Publications
René Laudonnière, Three Voyages, edited and translated by Charles E. Bennett (Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1975)—an account of the failed French effort to establish a base in Florida from which privateers could raid the Spanish treasure fleet. This work contains excellent material on French impressions of Indian warfare, on the 1565 clash with Pedro Menéndez de Avilés’s Spaniards, and on Laudonnière’s dramatic escape from Fort Caroline;
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, Castaways, edited by Enrique Pupo-Walker, translated by Frances M. López-Morillas (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993)—an eyewitness report of Pánfilio de Narváez’s expedition to Florida in 1528 by one of its four survivors. De Vaca’s narrative contains a superb description of both the Native Americans’ style of war and the Narváez expedition’s conflict with the Apalachee and the Aute. In addition, it provides a fascinating description of de Vaca’s eight-year overland return trip to Spanish Mexico;
Jacques Cartier, The Voyages of Jacques Cartier, edited and translated by H. P. Biggar (Ottawa: F. A. Acland, 1924)—the famous French explorer’s record of his three expeditions to North America. This book describes in detail the growing conflict between the Stadacona Indians and the French and contains several fine reproductions of original maps.