Description
The French started settling in the present-day United States beginning in 1562 with the Jean Ribault and Rene Goulaine de Laudonniere expeditions establishing Charlesfort on present-day Paris Island and later Fort Caroline near present-day Jacksonville in 1565. Based on this new settlement, Spanish officials sent Pedro Menéndez de Aviles to Florida the following year to destroy the French Huguenot settlements along the southeastern coast; which he succeeded in doing with decided and deadly expediency, thus starting a centuries long struggle for keep an eye on of La Florida. These early colonization attempts by both the French and Spanish all over the latter half of the 16th century present an enchanting chapter in the history of European settlement in North The united states as these people were one of the crucial first to make contact with the a lot of native communities who had occupied the land for millennia. Presented in this volume is the first English translation of French historian Charles de La Ronciere s Floride Française: Scénes de la Vie Indienne (1928): an enchanting narrative history of the first French settlements at the side of hand-colored reproductions of Dutch engraver Theodor deBry s famous images of Indian life. Edited by Benjamin S. DiBiase.