1x1 - The Southwest

March 28, 2005

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.

1x2 - The Southeast

March 28, 2005

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.

1x3 - The Northeast

March 29, 2005

Henry Hudson survived mutiny and discovered the mouth of the Hudson River in 1609. In 1610, he returned to a continent in search of a northwest passage, but after a year of enduring extreme cold weather, part of the crew mutinied and set Hudson, his son, and seven others adrift on a small boat, never to be seen again.

1x4 - The Northwest

March 29, 2005

In 1724, Danish navigator Vitus Jonassen Bering was sent by Peter the Great to explore the water routes between Siberia and North America, proving that North America and Asia were not connected. In 1741, another voyage to North America ended in shipwreck. Bering eventually perished on the uninhabited island subsequently named after him.

Alejandro Velasquez

Francisco Vazques de Coronado

Luis Medina

Alonzo De Sanchez

Gus Lynch

Lorenzo de Tejada

Brent Keast

Vitus Bering

Sabin Lomac

Jacques Le Moyne

Sergio Manzo

Juan de Contreras

Jonathan Erickson Eisley

Diego Lopez de la Cardenas

Paul Drinan

Pedro Menendez

Julian Bailey

Admiral Coligny