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Encyclopedia Britannica



RIBAULT (or RIBAUT), JEAN (c. 1520-1565)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 282 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RHY-RON
RIBAULT (or RIBAUT), JEAN (c. 1520-1565) , French navigator, famous for his connexion with the early
settlement
  of Florida, was born at Dieppe, probably about 1520. Appointed by
Admiral
  Coligny to the command of an expedition to prepare an asylum for French Protestants in America,
Ribault
  sailedon the 18th of February 1562, with two vessels. and on the 1st of May landed in Florida at St John's river, or, as he called it, Riviere de Mai. Having settled his colonists at Port Royal Harbour (now Paris
Island
 ,
South
  Carolina), and built Fort Charles for their
protection
 , he returned to France to find the country in the throes of the Civil War. In 1563 he appears to have been in England and to have issued True and Last Discoverie of Florida (Hakluyt Soc., vol. vii.). In April 1564 Coligny was in a position to despatch another expedition under Rene de Laudonniere, but meanwhile
Ribault
 's colony had come to an untimely endthe unfortunate adventurers, destitute of sup-plies from
home
 , having revolted against their
governor
  and attempted to make their way back to Europe in a boat which was happily picked up, when they were in the last extremities, by an English vessel. In 1565 Ribault was again sent out to satisfy Coligny as to Laudonniere's management of his new
settlement
 , Fort Caroline, on the Riviere de Mai. While he was still there the Spaniards, under Menendez de Aviles, though their country was at peace with France, attacked the French ships at the mouth of the river. Ribault set out to retaliate on the Spanish
fleet
 , but his vessels were wrecked by a
storm
  near Matanzas Inlet and he had to attempt to return to Fort Caroline by land. The fort had by this 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 sword in October 1565. The massacre was avenged in kind by Dominique de Gourgues (d. 1583) two years later.
See E. and E. Haag, La France protestante (1846-1859) ; and F. Parkman, Pioneers of France in the New World (new ed., 1899).


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