<Li> two small Spanish vessels seized as prizes, and </Li> <Li> a vessel called Trout (which may be included elsewhere). </Li> <P> As the French fleet approached Saint Augustine on 21 September (O.S. 11 September), a breeze broke the calm and then increased into a gale, a "furious tempest", a "severe storm", and even a hurricane, driving the French ships unintentionally south of Saint Augustine . As the storm intensified on 25 September (O.S. 15 September), it drove probably all four French vessels aground at different points between the south shore of Matanzas Inlet and Cape Canaveral . In one shipwreck, at least five Frenchmen perished, and the desperate survivors, unable to salvage food or supplies, decided to walk northward to Fort Caroline . Indians killed three more Frenchmen the next day . </P> <P> On 26--27 September (O.S. 16--17 September), admiral Menéndez began to march his Spanish troops overland through the raging tempest to attack Fort Caroline . Menéndez and his troops reached the fort almost undetected in the rainy, windy predawn of 30 September (O.S. 20 September) and quickly captured it without sustaining any casualties . Following the instructions of Philip II of Spain, the victorious Spaniards executed most of the Frenchmen as Protestant heretics, whom the Spanish then labeled as luteranos . René Goulaine de Laudonnière, Jacques le Moyne, Nicolas Le Challeux, and perhaps as many as 64 others escaped through the tempest across the marshes to the Perle and Lévrière . These French ships searched for survivors until 5 October (O.S. 25 September) but then returned to Europe . </P>

Why are there no hurricanes in the west coast