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This is my first Timeline so be nice. Any constructive criticism will be appreciated and if you like it I will continiue.
So any way I hope you like it...
1562 - 1608
French Huguenots flee France and establish a colony called Santée (OTL around the Santee River).The First French colonists spent most of their time searching for gold and failed to grow crops. By the end of the Year only 67 of the initial 150 survive.The colonies Governor René Goulaine de Laudonnière Went back to France and brought an additional 280 French settlers and around 140 French soldiers to help defend the colony. Unfortunatly during an unsuccesful Spanish raid
in September 1565, Laudonnière was killed. He was replaced by Jean Ribault. Under Ribaults leadership, several missions were created to convert the local Natives to Christianity. However with the unhealthy conditions of the French colony, the nearby Santee and the Timucua tribes were virtually extinct. It was not long before hostilities between The expanding French colony and the nearby Tribes emerged. During the first decade after the founding of Santée in 1562, Cusabo raids on the farms on the farms around the colony became increasingly problamatic and resulted in Santée declaring war. After a few Skirmishes, a peace agreement was aranged but Cusabo raids continiued. Santée was now the center of attention in France's North American colonial empire when Tobacco was succesfully being grown and exported. By 1574 Santée was exporting Large and Profitable amounts of the crop. The French King Charles IX poured supplies and settlers into the colony.