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https://cdn.scencyclopedia.org/sce/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14142017/Charlesfort.jpg640463A mid-sixteenth-century French outpost in Port Royal Sound, Charlesfort was the first French settlement in the present day United States. During the 1980s archaeologists located its site on Parris Island. In early 1562 Gaspard Coligny de Châtillon, the admiral of France, dispatched the Norman mariner Jean Ribault to lead two royal ships and 150 men […]