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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. [1]

36 relations: Altamaha River, Arlington (Jacksonville), Bibliothèque nationale de France, Charles IX of France, Charles T. Meide, Charlesfort-Santa Elena Site, Dominique de Gourgue, Florida State University, Fort Matanzas National Monument, French colonization of the Americas, French Florida, French Wars of Religion, Gaspard II de Coligny, Georgia (U.S. state), Guale, Huguenots, Hurricane Dora, Jacksonville, Florida, Jacques le Moyne, Jean Ribault, John Hawkins (naval commander), List of French possessions and colonies, Matanzas Inlet, National Park Service, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, René Goulaine de Laudonnière, Saturiwa, Spanish assault on French Florida, St. Augustine Light, St. Augustine, Florida, St. Johns River, Timucua, Timucua language, Timucuan Preserve, United States Department of the Interior, University of North Florida.

Altamaha River

The Altamaha River is a major river in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Arlington (Jacksonville)

Arlington is a large neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida, generally understood as one of the city's large "sides", the others being Northside, Southside and Westside.

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Bibliothèque nationale de France

The (BnF, English: National Library of France) is the national library of France, located in Paris.

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Charles IX of France

Charles IX (27 June 1550 – 30 May 1574) was a French monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France from 1560 until his death from tuberculosis.

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Charles T. Meide

Charles T. Meide, Jr., known as Chuck Meide, (born March 23, 1971) is an underwater and maritime archaeologist and currently the Director of LAMP (Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program), the research arm of the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum located in St.

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Charlesfort-Santa Elena Site

The Charlesfort-Santa Elena Site is an important early colonial archaeological site on Parris Island, South Carolina.

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Dominique de Gourgue

Dominique (or Domingue) de Gourgue (1530–1593) was a French nobleman and soldier.

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Florida State University

Florida State University (Florida State or FSU) is a public space-grant and sea-grant research university with its primary campus on a campus in Tallahassee, Florida.

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Fort Matanzas National Monument

Fort Matanzas National Monument was designated a United States National Monument on October 15, 1924.

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French colonization of the Americas

The French colonization of the Americas began in the 16th century, and continued on into the following centuries as France established a colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere.

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French Florida

French Florida (modern French: Floride française) was a colonial territory established by French Huguenot colonists in what is now Florida between 1562 and 1565.

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French Wars of Religion

The French Wars of Religion refers to a prolonged period of war and popular unrest between Roman Catholics and Huguenots (Reformed/Calvinist Protestants) in the Kingdom of France between 1562 and 1598.

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Gaspard II de Coligny

Gaspard de Coligny, Seigneur de Châtillon (16 February 1519 – 24 August 1572) was a French nobleman and admiral, best remembered as a disciplined Huguenot leader in the French Wars of Religion and a close friend and advisor to King Charles IX of France.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.

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Guale

Guale was a historic Native American chiefdom of Mississippian culture peoples located along the coast of present-day Georgia and the Sea Islands.

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Huguenots

Huguenots (Les huguenots) are an ethnoreligious group of French Protestants who follow the Reformed tradition.

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Hurricane Dora

Hurricane Dora was the first tropical cyclone on record to make landfall over the First Coast of Florida.

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Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Florida and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States.

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Jacques le Moyne

Jacques le Moyne de Morgues (1533–1588) was a French artist and member of Jean Ribault's expedition to the New World.

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Jean Ribault

Jean Ribault (also spelled Ribaut) (1520 – October 12, 1565) was a French naval officer, navigator, and a colonizer of what would become the southeastern United States.

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John Hawkins (naval commander)

Admiral Sir John Hawkins (also spelled as Hawkyns) (1532 – 12 November 1595) was an English slave trader, naval commander and administrator, merchant, navigator, shipbuilder and privateer.

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List of French possessions and colonies

During the 19th and 20th centuries, the French colonial empire was the second largest colonial empire behind the British Empire; it extended over of land at its height in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Matanzas Inlet

Matanzas Inlet is a channel in Florida between two barrier islands and the mainland, connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the south end of the Matanzas River.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.

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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (15 February 1519 – 17 September 1574) was a Spanish admiral and explorer from the region of Asturias, Spain, who is remembered for planning the first regular trans-oceanic convoys and for founding St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565.

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René Goulaine de Laudonnière

Rene Goulaine de Laudonnière (c. 1529–1574) was a French Huguenot explorer and the founder of the French colony of Fort Caroline in what is now Jacksonville, Florida.

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Saturiwa

The Saturiwa were a Timucua chiefdom centered on the mouth of the St. Johns River in what is now Jacksonville, Florida.

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Spanish assault on French Florida

The Spanish assault on French Florida began as part of imperial Spain's geopolitical strategy of developing colonies in the New World to protect its claimed territories against incursions by other European powers.

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St. Augustine Light

The St.

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St. Augustine, Florida

St.

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St. Johns River

The St.

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Timucua

The Timucua were a Native American people who lived in Northeast and North Central Florida and southeast Georgia.

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Timucua language

Timucua is a language isolate formerly spoken in northern and central Florida and southern Georgia by the Timucua people.

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Timucuan Preserve

The Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve is a U.S. National Preserve in Jacksonville, Florida.

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United States Department of the Interior

The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is the United States federal executive department of the U.S. government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources, and the administration of programs relating to Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, territorial affairs, and insular areas of the United States.

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University of North Florida

The University of North Florida (UNF) is a public university in Jacksonville, Florida.

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Redirects here:

Fort Caroline National Memorial, Fort Caroline National Memorial, FL, Fort Caroline National Memorial, Florida, Fort Caroline National Monument, Fort Caroline, FL, Fort Caroline, Florida, Fort San Mateo, Fort de la Caroline, Ft. Caroline.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Caroline

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