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''[[Portal:United States of America|United States of America]] > [[United States History|United States History]] > Discovery and Exploration 1492-1607 '' <br> | ''[[Portal:United States of America|United States of America]] > [[United States History|United States History]] > Discovery and Exploration 1492-1607 '' <br> | ||
===The New World=== | ===The New World=== | ||
In 1564 the French Protestants [http://www.geocities.com/hugenoteblad/hist-hug.htm (Huguenots)] attempted to colonize North America, building a colony nearby the modern day Jacksonville, Florida. The Spanish had already staked claim in that locality and soon [http://blogs.cbn.com/ChurchWatch/archive/2008/07/02/444-years-the-huguenot-christians-in-america.aspx rid the area of the French] | In 1564 the French Protestants [http://www.geocities.com/hugenoteblad/hist-hug.htm (Huguenots)] attempted to colonize North America, building a colony nearby the modern day Jacksonville, Florida. The Spanish had already staked claim in that locality and soon [http://blogs.cbn.com/ChurchWatch/archive/2008/07/02/444-years-the-huguenot-christians-in-america.aspx rid the area of the French] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Company The London Company] sent out explorers in 1606. <ref> Summers, Lewis Preston Summer. ''History of Southwest Virginia 1746-1786, Washington County 1777-1870'' Edition: illustrated. Published by The Overmountain Press, 1989. ISBN 0932807437, 9780932807434. 921 pages; page 12. Full text available at [http://books.google.com/books?id=0BtTC2FnOkAC Google Books] </ref> Meantime, the [http://search.ezilon.com/about-North-America.htm Basque], English and French fishing fleets were frequenting the coasts from Cape Cod to Newfoundland. | ||
[[Image:ColumbusMap.jpg|thumb|right|240px| Christopher Columbus map. Lisbon, workshop of Bartolomeo and Christopher Columbus, c.1490]] | [[Image:ColumbusMap.jpg|thumb|right|240px| Christopher Columbus map. Lisbon, workshop of Bartolomeo and Christopher Columbus, c.1490]] | ||
*'''1492:''' [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/columbus_christopher.shtml Christopher Columbus] sails across the Atlantic Ocean and reaches an island in the Bahamas in the Caribbean Sea. | *'''1492:''' [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/columbus_christopher.shtml Christopher Columbus] sails across the Atlantic Ocean and reaches an island in the Bahamas in the Caribbean Sea. | ||
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*'''1565:''' St. Augustine, Florida, the first town established by Europeans in America is founded by the Spanish. Later burned by the English in 1586. <ref> George Rainsford Fairbanks, Andrew Ellicott Douglass, Solomon Alofsen, ''The history and antiquities of the city of St. Augustine, Florida, founded A.D. 1565''. Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, Huntington Free Library. Published by C.B. Norton, 1858. Original from Oxford University. Digitized Dec 6, 2006. 200 pages. Full text can be found at [http://books.google.com/books?id=SHsFAAAAQAAJ Google Books]</ref> | *'''1565:''' St. Augustine, Florida, the first town established by Europeans in America is founded by the Spanish. Later burned by the English in 1586. <ref> George Rainsford Fairbanks, Andrew Ellicott Douglass, Solomon Alofsen, ''The history and antiquities of the city of St. Augustine, Florida, founded A.D. 1565''. Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, Huntington Free Library. Published by C.B. Norton, 1858. Original from Oxford University. Digitized Dec 6, 2006. 200 pages. Full text can be found at [http://books.google.com/books?id=SHsFAAAAQAAJ Google Books]</ref> | ||
==Websites== | ==Websites== | ||
*[http://www.everyculture.com/multi/A-Br/Basque-Americans.html Basque Americans] gives an overview of the Basque people's origins and settlement patterns. | |||
*[http://pages.prodigy.net/royjnagy/ressegui.htm Experiences of the French Huguenots in America - The King's Refugees] is a document written in about 1908. It contains information about French Huguenots and their flight to America. It also features several of the earliest French Huguenot immigrants and their descendants. | *[http://pages.prodigy.net/royjnagy/ressegui.htm Experiences of the French Huguenots in America - The King's Refugees] is a document written in about 1908. It contains information about French Huguenots and their flight to America. It also features several of the earliest French Huguenot immigrants and their descendants. | ||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
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