See also:RIBAULT (or RIBAUT), See also:JEAN (c. 1520-1565)
, See also:French navigator, famous for his connexion with the See also:early See also:settlement of See also:Florida, was See also:born at See also:Dieppe, probably about 1520
.
Appointed by See also:Admiral See also:Coligny to the command of an expedition to prepare an See also:asylum for French Protestants in See also:America, See also:Ribault sailedon the 18th of See also:February 1562, with two vessels. and on the 1st of May landed in Florida at St See also:John's See also:river, or, as he called it, See also:Riviere de See also:Mai
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Having settled his colonists at See also:Port Royal See also:Harbour (now See also:Paris See also:Island, See also:South Carolina), and built Fort See also:Charles for their See also:protection, he returned to See also:France to find the See also:country in the throes of the See also:Civil See also:War
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In 1563 he appears to have been in See also:England and to have issued True and Last Discoverie of Florida (See also:Hakluyt See also:Soc., vol. vii.)
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In See also:April 1564 Coligny was in a position to despatch another expedition under Rene de Laudonniere, but meanwhile Ribault's See also:colony had come to an untimely end—the unfortunate adventurers, destitute of sup-plies from See also:home, having revolted against their See also:governor and attempted to make their way back to See also:Europe in a See also:boat which was happily picked up, when they were in the last extremities, by an See also:English See also:vessel
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In 1565 Ribault was again sent out to satisfy Coligny as to Laudonniere's management of his new settlement, Fort See also:Caroline, on the Riviere de Mai
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While he was still there the Spaniards, under Menendez de See also:Aviles, though their country was at See also:peace with France, attacked the French See also:ships at the mouth of the river
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Ribault set out to retaliate on the See also:Spanish See also:fleet, but his vessels were wrecked by a See also:storm near See also:Matanzas Inlet and he had to See also:attempt to return to Fort Caroline by See also:land
.
The fort had by this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time fallen into the hands of the Spaniards, who had slaughtered all the colonists except a few who got off with two ships under Ribault's son
.
Induced to surrender by false assurances of safeguard, Ribault and his men were also put to the See also:sword in See also:October 1565
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The See also:massacre was avenged in See also:kind by Dominique de Gourgues (d
.
1583) two years later
.
See E. and E
.
Haag, La France protestante (1846-1859) ; and F
.
See also:Parkman, Pioneers of France in the New See also:World (new ed., 1899)
.
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