The New Found World, or Antarctike is the English title of an account first published in French in 1557 by the French Franciscan priest and explorer André Thevet after his experiences in France Antarc
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Fort Coligny
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Fort Coligny was a fortress founded by Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon in Guanabara Bay, Brazil in 1555, in what constituted the so-called France Antarctique historical episode.
The New Found World, or Antarctike
…of Brazil was in 1555 when Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon sailed a fleet to Guanabara Bay, now Rio de Janeiro, to establish France Antarctique. Fort Coligny was built there and used by the French for slave trading of the Tupinambá people. The Tupinambá suffered considerable mortality after exposure to…
Naval guns in the old Fortress of Villegaignon, in 1898