Laudonnière & Fort Caroline: History and Documents

این منبع تاریخی کلاسیک کاملترین کار در مورد ایجاد فورت کارولین است، که از آغاز اسکان دائمی اروپاییان در آمریکای شمالی خبر داد.

با استفاده از اسناد آرشیو فرانسوی و اسپانیایی، چارلز ای. بنت اولین گزارش جامع وقایع پیرامون درگیری های بین المللی این تلاش استعماری قرن شانزدهمی را ارائه می دهد که «آستانه» واقعی یک ملت جدید بود. اسناد ترجمه شده Laudonniere همچنین اطلاعات زیادی در مورد شگفتی های طبیعی این سرزمین و سرخپوستان بومی تیموکوا که فرانسوی ها با آنها برخورد کرده اند ارائه می دهد. به عنوان یک قبیله، تیموکوا تا اواسط دهه 1700 کاملاً از بین می رفت، بنابراین این گزارش ها برای قوم شناسان و مردم شناسان ارزشمند است.

با این انتشار مجدد Laudonniere

This classic historical resource remains the most complete work on the establishment of Fort Caroline, which heralded the start of permanent settlement by Europeans in North America.

Rene de Goulaine de Laudonniere founded a French Huguenot settlement on the St. Johns River near present-day Jacksonville and christened it Fort Caroline in 1564, but only a year later the hapless colonists were expelled by a Spanish fleet led by Pedro Menendez de Aviles. The Spanish in turn established a permanent settlement at St. Augustine, now the oldest city in the United States, and blocked any future French claims in Florida.

Using documents from both French and Spanish archives, Charles E. Bennett provides the first comprehensive account of the events surrounding the international conflicts of this 16th-century colonization effort, which was the actual "threshold" of a new nation. The translated Laudonniere documents also provide a wealth of information about the natural wonders of the land and the native Timucua Indians encountered
by the French. As a tribe, the Timucua would be completely gone by the mid-1700s, so these accounts are invaluable to ethnologists and anthropologists.

With this republication of Laudonniere & Fort Caroline, a new generation of archaeologists, anthropologists, and American colonial historians can experience the New World through the adventures of the French explorers. Visitors to Fort Caroline National Memorial will also find the volume fascinating reading as they explore the tentative early beginnings of a new nation.