Do you know America first European settlement was French... and in Florida... 20100401 22:51
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Fort Caroline was the first French colony in the present-day United States.
Established in what is now Jacksonville, Florida on June 22, 1564, it was
intended as a refuge for the Huguenots. It lasted only a year before being
obliterated by the Spanish.
... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Caroline
The St. Johns River is the longest river in the U.S. state of Florida ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Johns_River
Manatees (family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus) are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows. ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manatee Les lamantins sont de gros mammifères herbivores ... http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamantin
Jean Ribaut (1520 – October 12, 1565) was a French naval officer, navigator,
and a colonizer of what would become the southeastern United States. In
1562, he led an expedition to the New World that eventually founded Fort
Caroline in what is now Jacksonville, Florida, as a haven for the
Huguenots.
... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ribault
Laudonnière (c. 1529 – 1574) was a French Huguenot explorer and the founder of the French colony of Fort Caroline, located in present-day Jacksonville, Florida. Like Jean Ribault he was sent to look for land in Florida ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Goulaine_de_Laudonnière<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Goulaine_de_Laudonni%C3%A8re>
Lord Gaspard de Coligny (16 February 1519 – 24 August 1572), Seigneur (Lord) de Châtillon, was a French nobleman and admiral, best remembered as an austerely disciplined Huguenot leader in the French Wars of Religion. ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard_de_Coligny
Dominique de Gourgue (or Domingue de Gourgues) (1530-1593) was a French nobleman and soldier who led an attack against the Spaniards in North-Florida in 1568. He was a captain in King Charles IX's army. ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_de_Gourgue
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