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    The Huguenot Fort is a historic fortification site on Fort Hill Road in Oxford, Massachusetts. The original fort was built in 1694 by Huguenots, Protestant...
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    The Huguenots (/ˈhjuːɡənɒts/ HEW-gə-nots, UK also /-noʊz/ -⁠nohz, French: [yɡ(ə)no]) are a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed...
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    The Huguenot rebellions, sometimes called the Rohan Wars after the Huguenot leader Henri de Rohan, were a series of rebellions of the 1620s in which French...
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    town on Main Street. The remains of the Huguenot Fort still exist near Huguenot Road. From 1699 to 1704 the Huguenot settlers attempted to return to the settlement...
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    Historic Huguenot Street is located in New Paltz, New York, approximately 90 miles (140 km) north of New York City. The seven stone houses and several...
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  • Some notable French Huguenots or people with French Huguenot ancestry include: Salomon de Brosse (1571–1626), French architect. Isaac de Caus (1590–1648)...
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    June 1564, following King Charles IX's enlisting of Jean Ribault and his Huguenot settlers to stake a claim in French Florida ahead of Spain. The French...
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    series of civil wars between French Catholics and Protestants (called Huguenots) from 1562 to 1598. Between two and four million people died from violence...
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    René Goulaine de Laudonnière (category Huguenots)
    Huguenot explorer and the founder of the French colony of Fort Caroline in what is now Jacksonville, Florida. Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, a Huguenot,...
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    Siege of La Rochelle (category Huguenot rebellions)
    the Fort Louis. On September 10, the first cannon shots were fired by La Rochelle against royal troops at Fort Louis, starting the third Huguenot rebellion...
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    Louis Du Bois (21 October 1626 – 1696) was a Huguenot colonist in New Netherland who, with two of his sons and nine other refugees, founded the town of...
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    Dragonnades (category Huguenot history in France)
    the French Huguenot colonization of the city, there is a museum dedicated to the Huguenots, and the place where the Huguenots built a fort has become...
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    established by French Huguenot colonists as part of New France in what is now Florida and South Carolina between 1562 and 1565. French Huguenot leader and Admiral...
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    slaughters), on its north shore, of Jean Ribault and his band of Huguenot Frenchmen, the last of the Fort Caroline colonists, by the Spanish in 1565. In 1916, the...
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    Russian military figure of Huguenot origin, general admiral (1695), and close associate of Tsar Peter the Great. François Le Fort, born in Geneva, came from...
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    The Huguenot Church, also called the French Huguenot Church or the French Protestant Church, is a Gothic Revival church located at 136 Church Street in...
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    Fort Louis was a Royal fort built just outside the walls of the Huguenot city in La Rochelle. The fort was a source of great tension between the Huguenots...
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    Fort Totten is a former active United States Army installation in the New York City borough of Queens. It is located on the Willets Point peninsula on...
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    officer Toiras led the Royalist troops when they captured Ré from the Huguenots under the command of admiral Duke of Soubise. After his victory, Toiras...
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    Massacre at Matanzas Inlet (category Massacres of Huguenots)
    The Massacre at Matanzas Inlet was the mass killing of French Huguenots by Spanish Royal Army troops near the Matanzas Inlet in 1565, under orders from...
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    in 1757, and in 1766 further elevated as Earl Ligonier. Ligonier was a Huguenot refugee who fled his native Castres for England in 1697, following the...
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    Fort Slocum, New York was a US military post which occupied Davids Island in the western end of Long Island Sound in the city of New Rochelle, New York...
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    Fort Tryon Park is a public park located in the Washington Heights and Inwood neighborhoods of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The 67-acre (27 ha)...
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    DuVal) Eau Gallie ("rocky water") Eloise Fort Caroline Fontainebleau Frontenac Grenoble Drive Huguenot Lagoon Huguenot Memorial Park Isle of Normandy LaBelle...
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    Fort Wadsworth is a former United States military installation on Staten Island in New York City, situated on The Narrows which divide New York Bay into...
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    antagonised Condé, who launched another rebellion in the early months of 1616. Huguenot leaders supported Condé's rebellion, which led the young Louis XIII to...
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    Villegaignon's supporter and friend, the French Admiral and leader of the Huguenots, Gaspard de Coligny. After the foundation of Rio de Janeiro in 1565 by...
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    écus a year, along with a further 150 emergency forts (places de refuge), to be maintained at the Huguenots' own expense. Such an act of toleration was unusual...
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  • Saint-Jean-d'Angély (1621) – Huguenot rebellions Blockade of La Rochelle (1621–22) – Huguenot rebellions Siege of Montauban (1621) – Huguenot rebellions Siege of...
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  • 1562: Failed Huguenot settlement in South Carolina (Charlesfort-Santa Elena site). 1564: French Huguenots at Jacksonville, Florida (Fort Caroline). 1565:...
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