Huguenots

Examples of Huguenots in the following topics:

• The Conquest of New York

  • The British continued the Dutch policy of welcoming dissenting Christian sects, including the Huguenot founders of New Rochelle.

• The Dutch Empire

  • Many New Netherlanders were Walloons, Huguenots, Germans, Scandinavian, and English relocated from New England.

• The Demographics of the Middle Colonies

  • Other groups included the Welsh, Dutch, Swedes, Swiss, Scots Highlanders, and Huguenots.

• Exploration and Conquest of the New World

  • The Spanish navy overwhelmed 200 French Huguenot settlers and slaughtered them, even as they surrendered to Spain's superior military.
  • Augustine as an outpost to ensure that French Huguenots were no longer welcome in the area.

• The French Empire

  • Meanwhile, further to the south, French Protestants, called Huguenots, had the opportunity to leave hostile European lands while advancing French claims to the New World.

• Unitarianism and Universalism

  • Another important figure in early American Christian Universalism was George de Benneville, a French Huguenot preacher and physician who was imprisoned for advocating Universalism and later emigrated to Pennsylvania, where he continued preaching on the subject.

• The Carolinas

  • South Carolina was primarily settled by French Huguenot aristocrats, while North Carolina was settled by poor whites moving in from Virginia.

• European Empires in North America

  • Meanwhile, further to the south, French Protestants, called Huguenots, had the opportunity to leave hostile European lands while advancing French claims to the New World.

• From New Netherland to New York

  • Eighteenth-century New York City, meanwhile, contained a variety of people and religions—as well as Dutch and English people, and it held French Protestants (Huguenots), Jews, Puritans, Quakers, Anglicans, and a large population of slaves.