Jean Ribault

See also: Ribault

Jean Ribault , or Ribaut , born with Dieppe in 1520 and assassinated with Strong Caroline, 1565, was a captain of marine and Explorateur French.

Its life

This captain Huguenot was selected in 1562 by the admiral Gaspard de Coligny, chief of the Protestants French, to establish a colony in Florida with 150 of his co-religionists. Left with Rene de Goulaine de Laudonnière and the illustrator Moyne de Morgues, it accosts in Terra Florida in April and makes build close to the current city of Jacksonville a fort which it baptizes Charlesfort in the honor of the king Charles IX. Turned over in France to seek reinforcements and vivres, it unloads with Dieppe in full civil war. Obliged to exile itself in England, it is stopped one moment while périclite the huguenot establishment of Florida.

The August 28th 1565, Jean Ribault appears in Florida with the head of seven ships and of 600 colonists but, taken in a storm, the French fleet runs before even to have been able to engage the enemy. The Spanish will massacre, Ribault the first, all the survivors “not as a French, but like Luthérien S”. With unconditional surrender of garrison huguenote - also passed with the wire of the sword in its totality on order of the Spaniard Pedro Menéndez de Avilés - who follows, the attempt at colonization huguenote of the America is completed in a blood bath.

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