53-Jean Ribaut His Story
Discovering America Podcast
English - February 05, 2015 05:41 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsSociety & Culture History discovering america american history Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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After the clashing of swords stopped it was time to sail west but this time it would be to establish a colony for the sake of religion. Admiral de Coligny would choose Jean Ribaut to command and establish a French Protestant (Huguenots) colony on the land called Florida. The Spanish would not take kindly to this “invasion”. The Spanish commander Pedro Menendez would have the last word and not at all respectably. Can’t we all just get along?