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    Fort Caroline was an attempted French colonial settlement in Florida, located on the banks of the St. Johns River in present-day Duval County. It was...
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    Spanish assault on French Florida (category French forts in the United States)
    Sound, and the subsequent arrival of René Goulaine de Laudonnière at Fort Caroline, on the St. Johns River in June 1564. The Spanish laid claim to a vast...
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    French at Fort Caroline. On September 20, 1565, a Spanish force from the nearby Spanish settlement of St. Augustine attacked Fort Caroline, and killed...
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    about 30 miles south of the newly established French settlement at Fort Caroline on the St. Johns River. Menéndez had not known that the French had already...
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    Carolina. Two years later, he took over command of the French colony of Fort Caroline in what is now Jacksonville, Florida. He and many of his followers died...
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  • census-designated place Caroline County, Maryland Caroline County, Virginia Fort Caroline, the first French colony in what is now the United States Caroline Church and...
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    establish Fort Caroline, in what is now Jacksonville. The French establishment was wiped out by the Spaniards in 1565. With the capture of Fort Caroline, Huguenots...
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    quickly set out to attack Fort Caroline, traveling overland from St. Augustine. At the same time, Ribault sailed from Fort Caroline, intending to attack St...
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    captured Fort Caroline. The river was renamed San Mateo by the Spanish in honor of the Apostle Matthew, whose feast was the following day. Capturing Fort Caroline...
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    Charlesfort, but left after a year when they were not resupplied by France. Fort Caroline established in present-day Jacksonville, Florida, in 1564, lasted only...
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    Laudonnière launched a second voyage to build a colony; he established Fort Caroline in what is now Jacksonville, Florida. War at home again precluded a...
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    Jean Ribault's colony at Fort Caroline, whose ship the Trinité wrecked on the shores of Cape Canaveral in 1565, and built a fort from its timbers. In December...
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  • French Huguenots at Jacksonville, Florida (Fort Caroline). 1565: Spanish slaughter French 'heretics' at Fort Caroline. 1565: Spanish found Saint Augustine,...
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  • Santa Elena (Spanish Florida) (category Spanish forts in the United States)
    had been established in 1565 to oust the French from their colony of Fort Caroline. Santa Elena was ultimately built at the site of the abandoned French...
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    1564, French Huguenots led by René Goulaine de Laudonnière founded Fort Caroline in present-day Jacksonville and attempted to establish further settlements...
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    1568, in retaliation for the no quarter given after the capture of Fort Caroline and the subsequent Massacre at Matanzas Inlet. He was a captain in King...
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    a French Huguenot explorer and the founder of the French colony of Fort Caroline in what is now Jacksonville, Florida. Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, a...
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  • when a hurricane destroyed the French fleet, allowing Spain to conquer Fort Caroline. More recently, Hurricane Katrina redistributed over one million people...
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    Tortugas Everglades National memorials De Soto Fort Caroline National monuments Castillo de San Marcos Fort Matanzas National seashores Canaveral Gulf Islands...
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    marked the boundary between the Guale and Mocama missionary provinces. Fort Caroline, built by the French in 1564 and probably the oldest European fortified...
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    Key West in the Gulf of Mexico, in the United States. The park preserves Fort Jefferson and the several Dry Tortugas islands, the westernmost and most...
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    of the St. Johns in the area of Fort Caroline. Le Moyne also accompanied several inland expeditions from Ft. Caroline, and he made illustrations of many...
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    French settlement at Fort Caroline, in present Duval County, which was destroyed by the Spanish. Today a reconstructed version of the fort stands in its location...
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    before the French captain Jean Ribault, who was on a mission to secure Fort Caroline. On August 28, 1565, the feast day of St. Augustine of Hippo, Menéndez's...
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  • St. Johns River. There they established Fort Caroline. Later that year a group of mutineers from Fort Caroline fled the colony and turned pirate, attacking...
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    Fort Matanzas, was built by the Spanish authorities in Florida to safeguard this strategic inlet. René Goulaine de Laudonnière founded Fort Caroline in...
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    of the French Fort Caroline in 1564–1565, now represented by the Fort Caroline National Memorial. After the destruction of Fort Caroline, the area was...
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    National Memorial". National Park Service. Retrieved March 31, 2019. "Fort Caroline National Memorial". National Park Service. Retrieved March 3, 2019....
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    that became Duval County was home to the 16th-century French colony of Fort Caroline, and saw increased European settlement in the 18th century with the...
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    had been established in 1565 to drive the French from their colony of Fort Caroline. Santa Elena was ultimately built at the site of the abandoned French...
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