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Author Laudonnière, René Goulaine de

Title Three voyages / René Laudonnière ; translated with an introduction and notes by Charles E. Bennett
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 232 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Foreword to Paperback Edition; Introduction; Three Voyages; Preface; The First Voyage; The Second Voyage; The Third Voyage; Appendices; A-Newly Discovered Portrait of Dominique de Gourgues; B-Laudonnière's Shipping Contract of 1572 -- C-Mutual Gift Agreement between René Laudonnière and His Wife; D-Plant life in Sixteenth-Century Florida -- Notes; Notes to Introduction; Notes to Three Voyages; Notes to Appendix B; Index
Summary This translation of an eyewitness account by a major participant offers valuable information about all three attempts to establish a French colony on the south Atlantic coast of North America. Rene Laudonniere's account of the three attempts by France to colonize what is now the United States is uniquely valuable becausehe played a major role in each of the ventures-first, in 1562, as second in command during the founding of the ill-fated Charlesport, then as commander for the establishment of Fort Caroline on Florida's St. Johns River in 1564, and finally as the one to welcome French reinf
Notes Originally published: Gainesville : University Presses of Florida, [1975]
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-209) and index
Notes English
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Subject Laudonnière, René Goulaine de
Laudonnière, René Goulaine de -- Travel
SUBJECT Laudonnière, René Goulaine de fast
Subject French -- Florida -- Biography
Colonists -- Florida -- Biography
French -- Florida -- History -- 16th century
Spaniards -- Florida -- History -- 16th century
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Colonists
French
Spaniards
Travel
SUBJECT Florida -- History -- Huguenot colony, 1562-1565. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85049227
Florida -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85049219
Subject Florida
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Bennett, Charles E., 1910-2003.
ISBN 9780817383473
0817383476
Other Titles Histoire notable de la Floride. English