Laudonnière, René Goulaine de
, fl. –82, French colonizer in Florida. After accompanying Jean Ribaut on the first French expedition to Florida (), he led a second colonization attempt in , establishing Fort Caroline (named for Charles IX of France) on the south bank of the St. Johns River near its mouth. The colonists soon incurred the enmity of the Native Americans, many refused to work, others took to piracy, and finally most of them mutinied. Fort Caroline was in desperate straits when the English privateer Sir John Hawkins appeared in Aug., , and sold Laudonnière food and one of his ships. Laudonnière was prepared to sail for France when Ribaut arrived with supplies, reinforcements, and an order for Laudonnière to return to answer charges that had been brought against him. His departure was delayed by the appearance of the Spanish. Ribaut sailed to attack them at St. Augustine, but Pedro Menéndez de Avilés attacked Fort Caroline by land and massacred most of those left there by Ribaut. Laudonnière, one of the few who escaped, finally reached France in Jan., His () was translated by Richard Hakluyt as ().
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Page/Link: explorer, memoirist. A Frenchman, Laudonniere tried to found a colony in Florida, but failed. He wrote an account of his experiences, L'Histoire Notable de la Floride (). One of the expedition members, an artist named Jacques Le Moyne, brought his paintings of the American scene back to France; in Theodore de Bry, a publisher in Frankfurt-am-Main, published an edition of La Floride with Le Moyne's illustrations. In Laudonniere's account was translated into English and later included in Hakluyt's Principall Navigations. The book is especially valuable for its depiction of the Timucuan Indians, a tribe now vanished. A fellow colonist, Jean Ribaut, also wrote an account of the enterprise in his Whole and True Discovery of Terra Florida (). COPYRIGHT HarperCollins Publishers Copyright Gale, Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Ren&#; Goulaine de Laudonni&#;re (r&#;n&#;&#; g&#;&#;l&#;n&#; d&#; l&#;d&#;ny&#;r&#;), fl. &#;82, French colonizer in Florida. After accompanying Jean Ribaut on the first French expedition to Florida (), he led a second colonization attempt in , establishing Fort Caroline (named for Charles IX of France) on the south bank of the St. Johns River near its mouth. The colonists soon incurred the enmity of the Native Americans, many refused to work, others took to piracy, and finally most of them mutinied. Fort Caroline was in desperate straits when the English privateer Sir John Hawkins appeared in Aug., , and sold Laudonni&#;re food and one of his ships. Laudonni&#;re was prepared to sail for France when Ribaut arrived with supplies, reinforcements, and an order for Laudonni&#;re to return to answer charges that had been brought against him. His departure was delayed by the appearance of the Spanish. Ribaut sailed to attack them at St. Augustine, but Pedro Men&#;ndez de Avil&#;s attacked Fort Caroline by land and massacred most of those left there by Ribaut. Laudonni&#;re, one of the few who escaped, finally reached France in Jan., His Histoire nota
The “first” Thanksgiving held by the Pilgrims in was not the first celebration held in America or the New World. History records several “giving thanks” events were mentioned by early explorers such as Coronado, Juan Ponce de Leon, or Hernando de Soto. It was pretty much standard after crossing the Atlantic in a tiny boat or wandering across the continent with no map for guidance to be very thankful for having arrived at a destination. Florida claims two “first” Thanksgiving celebrations. One at what would become St. Augustine in and the other in at what was called Fort Caroline on the May River whose true location has become a source of a dispute between Georgia and Florida. [1] Florida claims the May River is now known as the St Johns River, at what became Jacksonville, Florida. [2] While new archeological evidence now points to a different location, on the Altamaha River in Georgia. [3] The French had been attempting to colonize the southeastern coast of what are now the states of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida as early as in an expedition led by Jean Ribault. [6]. Unfortunately, this effort was unsucc
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