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53-Jean Ribaut His Story


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After the clashing of swords stopped it was time to sail west but this time it would be to establish a colony for the sake of religion. Admiral de Coligny would choose Jean Ribaut to command and establish a French Protestant (Huguenots) colony on the land called Florida. The Spanish would not take kindly to this "invasion". The Spanish commander Pedro Menendez would have the last word and not at all respectably. Can't we all just get along?

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