8 Fort Caroline 1564

St. ous now for being the eldest continuously inhabited European payment in united states. In June 1564, per year before St. Augustine got created, 200 French colonists created Fort Caroline from the Northeastern Florida shore. The fort’s garrison battled to contain bouts of mutiny while they wrestled with problems by locals, hunger, and disorder. The fort persisted, although comfort of its residents ended up being really low by the point the Spanish read of its presence during the early 1565.

The fort was actually bolstered by Jean Ribault and hundreds more colonists and troops in August, but by that period, the Spanish federal government had already planned a journey to conquer they. The Spanish trip, directed by Pedro Menendez de Aviles, sailed in the northern coastline but ran into Ribault’s collection, whom drove all of them down. The Spanish soldiers made landfall further south and built a fort. This fort would become named St. Augustine. Ribault accumulated an army of 600 and sailed southern area to ruin new fort, but his collection ended up being affected by a-sudden violent storm. Читать далее →