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Expedition to Florida. Le Moyne accompanied the French expedition of René Laudonnière in an ill-fated attempt to colonize northern Florida. They arrived at the St. Johns River in 1564, and soon founded Fort Caroline near present-day Jacksonville. [1]
The first European artist to reach Florida, Le Moyne charted the St. John’s Bluff region, now Jacksonville, and sketched scenes from the lives of the Timucua Indians. Le Moyne lost most of his work during the 1565 Spanish attack on Fort Caroline.
A 1591 map of Florida by Jacques le Moyne de Morgues. Spanish conqueror and explorer Juan Ponce de León is usually given credit for being the first European to sight Florida in 1513, but he may have had predecessors.
Le Moyne de Morgues arrived in Florida in 1564 with an expedition led by the French Huguenot explorer René de Laudonnière. Members of the expedition founded a colony, which was invaded in 1565 by the Spaniards. Le Moyne de Morgues managed to escape, returned to France, and later settled in London.
The Spaniards, having made several disastrous expeditions into Florida, had left it for a time unmolested. The French Protestants, attempting to colonize under Ribaud, built Charlefort at Port Royal in 1562, and Fort Caroline under Laudonnière, at the River May (now St. John's, Florida), in 1564.
Le Moyne had some paintings and drawings of Florida life and conditions, he persuaded De Bry to approach Le Moyne on the subject of providing
* Ribault’s landfall at the cape of Anastasia Island (near St. Augustine, Florida) occurred April 29, 1562. This first French expedition to Florida, planned as a refuge for French Protestant Huguenots (and which Le Moyne did not accompany), is depicted in the first
