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    Fort Coligny was a fortress founded by Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1555, in what constituted the so-called France Antarctique...
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    Gaspard de Coligny, seigneur de Châtillon (16 February 1519 – 24 August 1572), was a French nobleman, Admiral of France, and Huguenot leader during the...
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  • Coligny may refer to: Coligny Brainerd Metheny (1889-1960), played football and basketball for Carnegie Tech House of Coligny, a French noble family,...
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    present-day Rio de Janeiro, where they built a fort named Fort Coligny. The fort was named in honor of Gaspard de Coligny (then a Catholic statesman, who about...
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    present-day Rio de Janeiro, and settled on a small island. A fort, named Fort Coligny, was built to protect them from attack from the Portuguese troops...
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  • (1610–1615) The island of Saint Alexis (1531) France Antarctique, to Fort Coligny (Rio de Janeiro Bay; intended as a haven for Huguenots) (1555–1567) Île...
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    present-day Rio de Janeiro, where they built a fort named Fort Coligny. The fort was named in honour of Gaspard de Coligny (then a Catholic statesman, who about...
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    Island, then moved to Serigipe Island, near the shore, where they built Fort Coligny. After they were expelled by Portuguese military expeditions in 1563...
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    Illustration showing the Portuguese attack on Fort Coligny in 1560: French trade with Indians along the Brazilian coast in the 16th century was seen by...
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    admiral Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon. Consequently, Villegagnon built Fort Coligny on the island when attempting to establish the France Antarctique colony...
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    1567, a Portuguese naval squadron, under the command of Mem de Sá, took Fort Coligny and expelled the French from the Guanabara Bay. Following the Portuguese...
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  • the following year. The emigrants disembarked on île de Coligny, where they built fort Coligny. Villagagnon and Corguilleray soon fell out, with the latter...
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  • Catholic French vice-admiral on the site of present-day Rio de Janeiro. Fort Coligny, built by the French colonists on a small island of the Guanabara Bay...
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    admiral Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon. Consequently, Villegagnon built Fort Coligny on the island when attempting to establish the France Antarctique colony...
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    released from English custody in June 1565 and sent by Coligny back to Florida, arrived at Fort Caroline with a large fleet and hundreds of soldiers and...
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    de Coligny, the military and political leader of the Huguenots. King Charles IX ordered the killing of a group of Huguenot leaders, including Coligny, and...
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    Villegagnon Island), where they settled permanently and established the Fort Coligny. The so-called France Antarctique was home to Calvinist Protestant settlers...
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    Guanabara Bay, now Rio de Janeiro, to establish France Antarctique. Fort Coligny was built there and used by the French for slave trading of the Tupinambá...
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    near modern-day Rio de Janeiro in Brazil at Guanabara Bay, and builds Fort Coligny. November 13 – Thomas Cranmer is officially removed from office as the...
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  • His theological theories brought him into conflict in the French fort of Coligny (in present-day Rio de Janeiro), resulting in two Huguenots being expelled...
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  • left from Le Havre such as Villegagnon who founded a colony in Brazil (Fort Coligny) in 1555. At the end of the 16th century trade expanded quickly and Le...
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    Grim, Man-eating People in the New World, America"). 1560 17 March Fort Coligny on Villegagnon Island in Rio de Janeiro is attacked and destroyed during...
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    attempts to colonize Florida. A Huguenot and officer under Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, Ribault led an expedition to the New World in 1562 that founded the outpost...
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    near modern-day Rio de Janeiro in Brazil at Guanabara Bay, and builds Fort Coligny. November 13 – Thomas Cranmer is officially removed from office as the...
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    friend and comrade, Admiral Coligny, managed to build a fort in the area of modern-day Rio de Janeiro which they called Fort Coligny. As the French colony grew...
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    Villegaignon, whose troops occupied the island in 1555, consequently building Fort Coligny on the island when attempting to establish the France Antarctique colony...
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    submitting their respective prisoners to the worst abuse. The colony of Fort Coligny, built by Villegaignon and his nephew Legendre de Boissy on the Villegaignon...
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    the founder of the French colony of Fort Caroline in what is now Jacksonville, Florida. Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, a Huguenot, sent Jean Ribault and Laudonnière...
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    would take place between the Protestant rebels (led by Condé and admiral Coligny and the royal (largely Catholic) party led by queen Catherine, the king...
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    Renard, reported a failed assault on the fort at Boulemberg, or Mount Lambert. The French leader, Gaspard II de Coligny, sieur de Châtillon, a nephew of the...
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