The Florida History Podcast
1) Episode 319: Ribault meets his end at Matanzas
The Spanish effort to retake Florida ends in success- Jean Ribault and his men are slaughtered.
2) Episode 318: The End of Fort Caroline
Summer 1565 led Laudonnière's Fort Caroline colony to interact with help British travelers, then be reinforced and botted up by their own countrymen sent by the French King and then finally slaughtere...Show More
3) Episode 317: The French in Florida 1564 and Rene Laudonnière
Rene Laudonnière establishes Fort Caroline at the mouth of the St Johns River. The colony struggles with mutiny and food though relations with the nearby Timucua were generally good, they began to bec...Show More
4) Episode 316: 1562 and France's first Florida settlement
The first French settlement in what was then Florida but is now South Carolina took place in 1862. But the colony was soon abandoned while religious strife back home engulfed some of our key figures.
5) Episode 315: Religion, the Reformation and French colonization of the Americas
We discuss the religious strife that dominated 16th Century Europe as well as France's pragmatic diplomatic and foreign policy of the era- despite being a Kingdom dominated by the Catholic Church hier...Show More
6) French Florida Trailer
We're going to do a few episodes on colonial interactions between France and Florida centering around Fort Caroline and Pensacola. It can be argued the French interactions in Florida between 1562 and ...Show More
7) BONUS: Why Canada Never Became Part of the US
Kartik Krishnaiyer describes his new book on the Canada-USA relationship and gives an update on the podcast and what he and Robert are working on outside the podcast.Link to buy the new book.
8) Episode 314: East Florida abandoned by Britain
We discuss the British leaving East Florida between 1784 and 1785 and how the British kept their hands in the pie of Florida for the decades following 1785.
9) Episode 313: The Peace Treaties
We discuss the peace treaties between Britain and Spain on one hand and Britain and the US on the other. Ceding East Florida to Spain seemed simple enough but was part of a deeper calculation by the c...Show More
10) Episode 312: Spanish siege and capture of Pensacola
The Spanish (with French assistance) complete the conquest of West Florida by sieging and capturing British-held Pensacola, in a decisive battle in the American Revolutionary War .