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I know the 'Huguenot colony in the Americas' WI is pretty popular here, and I found this while browsing through Wikipedia...
Could this have grown into a full-fledged Huguenot colony if it hadn't been strangled at birth?
The French began taking an interest in the area as well, leading the Spanish to accelerate their colonization plans. Jean Ribault led an expedition to Florida in 1562, and his associate René Goulaine de Laudonnière founded Fort Caroline in what is now Jacksonville in 1564 as a haven for the Huguenots. San Agustín (St. Augustine), founded in 1565 by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in any U.S. state; it is second oldest only to San Juan, Puerto Rico in the United States' current territory. From this base of operations, the Spanish began building Catholic missions throughout what is today the southeastern United States.
On September 20, 1565, Menéndez de Avilés attacked Fort Caroline, killed all the French soldiers defending it (except Catholics), and renamed the fort San Mateo. Two years later, Dominique de Gourgues recaptured the settlement from the Spanish and slaughtered all of the Spanish defenders. In 1586, English sea captain and sometime pirate Sir Francis Drake plundered and burned St. Augustine.
Could this have grown into a full-fledged Huguenot colony if it hadn't been strangled at birth?