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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hakluyt , Richard 1553 - (search)
Hakluyt, Richard 1553-
Author; born in England about 1553.
Educated at Oxford University, he was engaged there as a lecturer on cosmography, and was the first who taught the use of globes.
In 1583 he published an account of voyages of discovery to America; and four years afterwards, while with the English ambassador at Paris, Sir Edward Stafford, probably as his chaplain, he published in French a narrative of the voyages of Laudonniere and others; and in 1587 he published them in English, under the title Of four voyages unto Florida.
On his return to England in 1589, Hakluyt was appointed by Raleigh one of the company of adventurers for colonizing Virginia.
His greatest work, The principal Navigations, voyages, Trafficks, and discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or over land, to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compass of these fifteen hundred years, was published the same year.
It contains many curious documents,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Huguenots. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Isles , Andre Des 1530 - (search)
Isles, Andre Des 1530-
Military officer; born in Dieppe, France, in 1530; sent to America in 1560 by Coligni for the purpose of erecting a society for the settlement of French Huguenots.
He landed on the Florida coast near Cape San Juan, and erected a wooden fort, which he left in charge of twenty men. Coligni sent 600 Huguenots and three ships, under command of Captain Ribaut, with Des Isles as lieutenant.
In 1563 Des Isles returned with 300 additional emigrants, but owing to eternal strife between the leaders, Ribaut and Des Isles, on the one hand, and Laudonniere, on the other, the colony was greatly reduced, and in this condition was attacked by the Spaniard Menendez, who massacred all the French.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Laudonniere , Rene Goulaine de 1562 -1586 (search)
Laudonniere, Rene Goulaine de 1562-1586
Colonist; born in France; first came to America in 1562 with the Huguenot colony under Ribault.
In the spring of 1564 he was sent by Coligni with three ships to assist the first colony, but finding the Ribault settlement abandoned, went to Florida and built Fort Caroline on the St. Johns River.
In the onslaught made upon the French colony by the Spaniards, Sept. 21, 1565, Laudonniere escaped.
He wrote a history of the Florida enterprise, and died oulaine de 1562-1586
Colonist; born in France; first came to America in 1562 with the Huguenot colony under Ribault.
In the spring of 1564 he was sent by Coligni with three ships to assist the first colony, but finding the Ribault settlement abandoned, went to Florida and built Fort Caroline on the St. Johns River.
In the onslaught made upon the French colony by the Spaniards, Sept. 21, 1565, Laudonniere escaped.
He wrote a history of the Florida enterprise, and died in France after 1586.