René Goulaine de Laudonnière
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Rene Goulaine de Laudonnière was 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 Huguenot, sent Jea
La Floride françoise (French Florida), by Pierre du Val, 17th century.
Athore, son of the Timucuan king Saturiwa, showing Laudonnière the monument placed by Ribault in 1562.
One of Theodor de Bry's engravings, supposedly based on drawings by Jacques LeMoyne, depicting Chief Saturiwa preparing his men for battle.
Fort Caroline
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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 established under the leadership of René Goulaine
René Goulaine de Laudonnière
…Rene Goulaine de Laudonnière (French pronunciation: ; c. 1529–1574) was 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 Huguenot, sent Jean Ribault and Laudonnière to explore potential sites in Florida…
Fort Caroline moat FOCA1566
Fort Caroline shown in an old etching
Founding of Fort Caroline depicted in Histoire de la Marine, de la voile à l'atome by Philippe Masson