French Florida II: The Huguenots and Fort Caroline

After the 1st expedition to Florida ended in mutiny, murder and cannibalism, the Huguenots suffer through the first French Civil War of Religion. The prospects of Florida proved tempting to both the religious refugee and the opportunist alike. However, their settlement, Fort Caroline is built in the Land of the Timucua a people divided into dozens of warring chiefdoms, and the seas crawling with Spanish war ships, who consider Florida their domain.

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