History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . Burial of de Soto in tne Mississippi at night. tory. Ribault, a French captain commis-sioned by Charles IX., was put in commandof an expedition by that famous Huguenot,Admiral Coligny, and landed on the coastof Florida, at the mouth of the St. Johns,which he called the River of May. This 86 DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT [1562 was in 1562. The name Carolina, whichthat section still bears, was given to a fortat Port Royal, or St. Helena. Ribault re-turned to France, where civil war was thenraging between the Cat
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . Burial of de Soto in tne Mississippi at night. tory. Ribault, a French captain commis-sioned by Charles IX., was put in commandof an expedition by that famous Huguenot,Admiral Coligny, and landed on the coastof Florida, at the mouth of the St. Johns,which he called the River of May. This 86 DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT [1562 was in 1562. The name Carolina, whichthat section still bears, was given to a fortat Port Royal, or St. Helena. Ribault re-turned to France, where civil war was thenraging between the Catholics and the Prot-estants or Huguenots. His colony, waiting. Fort Carolina on the River of May. for promised aid and foolishly making noattempt to cultivate the soil, soon lan-guished. Dissensions arose, and an effortwas made to return home. Famine havingcarried off the greater number, the colonycame to an end. In 1564 Coligny sent outLaudonniere. who built another fort, also I5&5] EARLY SPANISH AMERICA : named Carolina, on the River of misfortunes gathered thickly aboutthe settlers, when Ribault arrived bringingsupplies. But Spain claimed this territory, andPedro Melendez a Spanish soldier, was in
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