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    Jean Ribault (also spelled Ribaut) (1520 – October 12, 1565) was a French naval officer, navigator, and a colonizer of what would become the southeastern...
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    males, and a few skilled craftsmen. When the French Huguenot leader, Jean Ribault, learned of the Spanish presence nearby, he also decided on a swift assault...
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    Jacksonville, Florida. Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, a Huguenot, sent Jean Ribault and Laudonnière to explore potential sites in Florida suitable for settlement...
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  • Jean Ribault High School is a public high school located in North Jacksonville, Florida. It is part of Duval County Public Schools. Ribault was one of...
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    1484–1491: Robert d'Évreux 1491–1515: Guillaume Guérin 1515–1515: Jean Ribault 1515–1520: Adrien Gouffier de Boissy (created cardinal in 1515, also bishop...
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    two years before where Goulaine de Laudonnière was under command of Jean Ribault, a local Huguenot captain, had resulted in the foundation of Charlesfort...
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    Brazil, named France Antarctique. A first landing in Florida was made by Jean Ribault, and a second by René Goulaine de Laudonnière in 1562, before moving...
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    between the Catholics and Huguenots of France resulted in the attempt by Jean Ribault in February 1562 to settle a colony at Charlesfort on Port Royal Sound...
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    Laudonnière on 22 June 1564, following King Charles IX's enlisting of Jean Ribault and his Huguenot settlers to stake a claim in French Florida ahead of...
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    Laveranues Coles (category Jean Ribault High School alumni)
    Cincinnati Bengals. Coles was born in Jacksonville, Florida. While attending Ribault High School in Jacksonville, Coles played football, basketball, and ran...
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  • Travis Taylor (American football) (category Jean Ribault High School alumni)
    Camden County, Georgia, but transferred to Jean Ribault High School in Jacksonville, Florida. As a senior at Ribault High School, Taylor was a first team Class...
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    of the Indians to Catholicism. In 1562, a group of Huguenots led by Jean Ribault arrived in territory claimed by Spain and called La Florida. They explored...
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    grew up there and in Jacksonville, Florida, where he graduated from Jean Ribault High School in 1968. At the age of 16, his mother, Helen Barber, bought...
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  • (Florida–Georgia), named the Seine River in 1652 by French explorer Jean Ribault, later renamed by the Spanish. Other uses Seine River (electoral district)...
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    director at Ribault Junior High: "The band director gave three of us sticks and said, 'Play me something,'" he recalled. He then attended Jean Ribault High School...
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    Thlathlothlaguphka, or Phlaphlagaphgaw, meaning "rotten fish". French explorer Jean Ribault named the river the Seine when he encountered it in 1562. From near its...
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    time the name was corrupted to form the word Satilla. French explorer Jean Ribault named the river the Somme when he encountered it in 1562. The river was...
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    football coach at Jean Ribault High School and teaching at Ribault Junior High. Rogers spent three years as an assistant at Ribault before taking the...
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  • site of the abandoned French outpost of Charlesfort, founded in 1562 by Jean Ribault. In 1565 Menéndez destroyed the French Fort Caroline and then founded...
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    Charles IX, under the leadership of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny sent Jean Ribault and a group of Huguenot settlers in an attempt to colonize the Atlantic...
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    Parris Island by special request. A French Huguenot expedition, led by Jean Ribault in 1562, was the first European group to attempt to colonize Parris Island...
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    Le Moyne de Morgues (c. 1533–1588) was a French artist and member of Jean Ribault's expedition to the New World. His depictions of Native American life...
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    several hundred shipwrecked French Huguenots from Fort Caroline, led by Jean Ribault. The Huguenots were executed somewhere near the present site of Matanzas...
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    there until the early 18th century. In 1562, French Huguenot explorer Jean Ribault became the first recorded European visitor to Napoyca, and he named the...
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    heretics. Menéndez was in a race to reach Florida before the French captain Jean Ribault, who was on a mission to secure Fort Caroline. On August 28, 1565, the...
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  • (1515–1572), martyr (Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre), philosopher. Jean Ribault (1520–1565), early colonizer of America, he and other Huguenot colonists...
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  • High School, Pedro Menendez High School, Samuel W. Wolfson High School, Jean Ribault High School, Orange Park High School, Yulee High School, West Nassau...
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  • Mathematics and Science Academy Interlake High School (Bellevue, Washington) Jean Ribault High School (Jacksonville, Florida) Thomas Jefferson High School (Iowa)...
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    operating since 1874. These vessels operated in the ferry fleet: primary: Jean Ribault, built 1996, 40 vehicles, 206 passengers. stand-by: Blackbeard, built...
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  • Some of the featured explorers include Henry Hudson, Pedro Menéndez, Jean Ribault, Vitus Bering and Francisco Vásquez de Coronado. The show was mainly...
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