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The French in Florida: Fort Caroline and the Lost Colony
In 1564, a group of French Huguenots sailed to the New World seeking religious freedom and a safe haven from Catholic persecution. They built Fort Caroline on the St. Johns River in present-day Jacksonville, Florida, and for a brief moment it seemed they might establish a permanent colony. But their presence threatened Spanish ambitions in the region, and in 1565, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés led a brutal attack that wiped out the settlement. This episode tells the story of Jean Ribault, René de Laudonnière, and the forgotten French colony that was one of the first Protestant settlements in North…
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