

Release
28 Mar 2005Country
Language
EnglishProduction
The adventures of various European explorers who were key figures in the colonization of the Americas.
A four-part chronicle of the exploration of North America profiles the men who led the expeditions.
In 1562 French naval officer Jean Ribault sailed to America with the goal of establishing a French Protestant colony. Exploring the Florida coastline, Ribault sailed north and built Charlesfort (Port Royal, SC) before returning to a France in the midst of a religious war. He eventually returned to America to help fight Spanish forces at Fort Caroline on the mouth of the St. Johns River in Florida.
4 episodes