Thursday, September 10, 2015

SCOTT #614-616 HUGUENOT-WALLOON ISSUE

    Once again, fear and persecution drove people down to the sea. The Huguenots, French Protestants, came ashore at Mayport, Florida, in 1562. "Ill fated" best describes that settlement. It was destroyed by disease, Indians, and finally, the Spanish. The Walloons, French and Belgian Protestants, fared better. The Dutch West India Company engaged them in 1624 to settle "New Netherland" at Fort Orange, now the city of Albany.



                       

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