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Vikings and Native Americans

Although once thought preposterous, it has now been proven that the Vikings reached North America 500 years before Columbus. It also appears that they not only

Academics Locate Fort Caroline in Georgia not Florida

Evidence continues to accumulate that the site of Fort Caroline, the first European settlement in America, was actually in Darien, Georgia and not Jacksonville

Pocahontas’ Indian Empire Site Discovered

When the English showed up in Virginia and constructed Jamestown they did not enter virgin territory where the natives were just sitting around waiting for thei

The Whole and True Discouerye of Terra Florida by Jean Ribault

From a manuscript copy in the British Museum. (Archive.org) HERE AS in the yeare 1562 it pleased God to move your grace f to chose and appoynt us t

Narrative of Le Moyne

AN ARTIST WHO ACCOMPANIED THE FRENCH EXPEDITION TO FLORIDA UNDER LAUDONNIERE, 1564. Introduction The Spaniards, having made several disastrous expeditions into

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