Name/Title
Laudonniere & Fort Caroline : history and documentsEntry/Object ID
Library.156Description
xv, 191 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm..
Originally published: Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 1964.
Includes index.
Includes new forward by Jerald Milanich.
Paperback edition.
Same as hardcover edition in text but omits sketch of saffafras tree and fol.46 text on verso of front cover and the following page. Also omits the sketch of the tobacco plant and fol.34 text found on the back cover of hard cover edition.
Rene de Goulaine de Laudonniere founded a French Huguenot settlement on the St. Johns River near present-day Jacksonville and christened it Fort Caroline in 1564, but only a year later the hapless colonists were expelled by a Spanish fleet led by Pedro Menendez de Aviles. The Spanish in turn established a permanent settlement at St. Augustine, now the oldest city in the United States, and blocked any future French claims in Florida.
Using documents from both French and Spanish archives, Charles E. Bennett provides the first comprehensive account of the events surrounding the international conflicts of this 16th-century colonization effort, which was the actual "threshold" of a new nation. The translated Laudonniere documents also provide a wealth of information about the natural wonders of the land and the native Timucua Indians encountered by the French. As a tribe, the Timucua would be completely gone by the mid-1700s, so these accounts are invaluable to ethnologists and anthropologists.Collection
LibraryLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
BookNomenclature Sub-Class
Other DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Laudonnie`re, Rene´ Goulaine de., French -- Florida -- History -- 16th century -- Sources., Fortification -- Florida -- Jacksonville Region -- History -- 16th century., Fort Caroline National Memorial (Jacksonville, Fla.)., Florida -- History -- Huguenot colony, 1562-1565 -- Sources.Publication Details
Author
Bennett, Charles E., 1910-2003Publisher
University of Alabama PressPlace Published
* Untyped Place Published
Tuscaloosa, Ala.Call No.
F 314 .B471l 2001ISBN
081731122XLCCN
2001027421