...pplies of every kind, yet easy to defend and surrounded by navigable arms of the sea, made an excellent depot for the navy. These advantages had not been unobserved by the navigator Jean Ribaut, of Dieppe , who, in 1562, had brought there a party of Norman Protestants, and had built a fort on one of the islands; the French names of Beaufort and Port Royal perpetuate the remembrance of those hardy pione...