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"The French began settling in the present-day United States beginning in 1562 with the Jean Ribault and Rene Goulaine de Laudonniere expeditions establishing Charlesfort on present-day Paris Island and later Fort Caroline near present-day Jacksonville in 1565. In response to this new settlement, Spanish officials sent Pedro Men ndez de Aviles to Florida the following year to destroy the French Huguenot settlements along the southeastern coast; which he succeeded in doing with determined and deadly expediency, thus starting a centuries long struggle for control of ""La Florida."" Presented in this volume is the first English translation of French historian Charles de La Ronciere's ""French Florida"" (1928): a fascinating narrative history of the first French settlements along with hand-colored reproductions of Dutch engraver Theodore deBry's famous images of Indian life."

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