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The Huguenots (/ ˈ h juː ɡ ə n ɒ t s / HEW-gə-nots, UK also /-n oʊ z /-nohz; French:) are a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Besançon Hugues (1491–1532), was in common use by ...
The Huguenot Church, also called the French Huguenot Church or the French Protestant Church, is a Gothic Revival church located at 136 Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Built in 1844 and designed by architect Edward Brickell White , it is the oldest Gothic Revival church in South Carolina, and has been designated a National Historic ...
The Edict of Nantes. In 1685, Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, making it illegal for French citizens to practice the Protestant faith. [1] Huguenots were persecuted and as a result there was a "mass exodus" from France to England, the Netherlands, Africa, Germany, and Colonial America.
While white inhabitants were largely Anglican, many Huguenots were established there after 1700. [7] The Goose Creek men became leaders of the early Indian trade, and by the 1690s many held important offices in the colonial government. At first the Goose Creek men dealt mainly in Indian slaves, while later the deerskin trade dominated. [8]
Aaron Sherritt, Anglo-Irish Protestant of Huguenot descent, anti-Catholic, Australian colonial pioneer, victim of police manipulation, [391] murder victim (Kelly Gang). [ 693 ] Jedediah Smith , American explorer , mountain man
An Episode from the Dragonnades, painting by Jules Girardet A Protestant political cartoon satirising the Dragonnades. The Dragonnades was a policy implemented by Louis XIV in 1681 to force French Protestants known as Huguenots to convert to Roman Catholicism.
Huguenot participants in the American Revolution (67 P) Pages in category "Huguenot history in the United States" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
Emblem of The Huguenot Society of America. The Huguenot Society of America is a New York City–based genealogical organization. On April 12, 1883, the Society was inaugurated by a group of descendants of Huguenots who had fled persecution in France and who (or whose descendants) settled in what is now the United States of America.