 The Creek, sometimes together with English colonial militia, attacked and severely damaged the Pensacola people of northern Florida; survivors retreated to Pensacola, Mobile, and St. Augustine.The French and Spanish became allies against the English, and tried to keep them out of the lower Southeast.Governor of French Louisiana, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, took Pensacola for France on May 14, 1719, arriving with his fleet and a large ground force of allied Indian warriors.