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Conquest of America(2005)
March 28, 20051 Season · 4 Episodes
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Action & Adventure
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The adventures of various European explorers who were key figures in the colonization of the Americas.
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The adventures of various European explorers who were key figures in the colonization of the Americas.
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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.
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.
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.
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