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 de Laudonnière on 22 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 colony came into conflict with the Spanish, who established St. Augustine in September 1565, and Fort Caroline was sacked by Spanish troops under Pedro Menéndez de Avilés on 20 September. The Spanish continued to occupy the site as San Mateo until 1569.[2][3]
The exact site of the former fort is unknown. In 1953 the National Park Service established the Fort Caroline National Memorial along the southern bank of the St. John's River near the point that commemorates Laudonnière's first landing. This is generally accepted by scholars as being in the vicinity of the original fort, though probably not the exact location. The memorial is now managed as a part of the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, but it is also a distinct unit under administration of the National Park Service.
^"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 9 July 2010.
^Horowitz, Tony (2008). A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World. New York: Henry Holt & Co. ISBN 9780805076035.
FortCaroline was an attempted French colonial settlement in Florida, located on the banks of the St. Johns River in present-day Duval County. It was...
Sound, and the subsequent arrival of René Goulaine de Laudonnière at FortCaroline, on the St. Johns River in June 1564. The Spanish laid claim to a vast...
when a hurricane destroyed the French fleet, allowing Spain to conquer FortCaroline. More recently, Hurricane Katrina redistributed over one million people...
establish FortCaroline, in what is now Jacksonville. The French establishment was wiped out by the Spaniards in 1565. With the capture of FortCaroline, Huguenots...
Carolina. Two years later, he took over command of the French colony of FortCaroline in what is now Jacksonville, Florida. He and many of his followers died...
about 30 miles south of the newly established French settlement at FortCaroline on the St. Johns River. Menéndez had not known that the French had already...
quickly set out to attack FortCaroline, traveling overland from St. Augustine. At the same time, Ribault sailed from FortCaroline, intending to attack St...
census-designated place Caroline County, Maryland Caroline County, Virginia FortCaroline, the first French colony in what is now the United States Caroline Church and...
Charlesfort, but left after a year when they were not resupplied by France. FortCaroline established in present-day Jacksonville, Florida, in 1564, lasted only...
Jean Ribault's colony at FortCaroline, whose ship the Trinité wrecked on the shores of Cape Canaveral in 1565, and built a fort from its timbers. In December...
Huguenots at Jacksonville, Florida (FortCaroline). 1565: Spanish slaughter French Huguenot 'heretics' at FortCaroline (Jacksonville) as well as the inlet...
Laudonnière launched a second voyage to build a colony; he established FortCaroline in what is now Jacksonville, Florida. War at home again precluded a...
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1564, French Huguenots led by René Goulaine de Laudonnière founded FortCaroline in present-day Jacksonville and attempted to establish further settlements...
marked the boundary between the Guale and Mocama missionary provinces. FortCaroline, built by the French in 1564 and probably the oldest European fortified...
1568, in retaliation for the no quarter given after the capture of FortCaroline and the subsequent Massacre at Matanzas Inlet. He was a captain in King...
National Memorial". National Park Service. Retrieved March 31, 2019. "FortCaroline National Memorial". National Park Service. Retrieved March 3, 2019....
French settlement at FortCaroline, in present Duval County, which was destroyed by the Spanish. Today a reconstructed version of the fort stands in its location...
Fort Matanzas, was built by the Spanish authorities in Florida to safeguard this strategic inlet. René Goulaine de Laudonnière founded FortCaroline in...
Spain, of a group of several hundred shipwrecked French Huguenots from FortCaroline, led by Jean Ribault. The Huguenots were executed somewhere near the...
Florida, forging friendly relations with the French Huguenot settlers at FortCaroline in 1564 and later becoming heavily involved in the Spanish mission system...
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