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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 ...
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
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 ...
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.
The Camisard Uprising of the French Protestants. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. [reprint of article in: Papers of the American Society of Church History (1889)] H. M. Baird (1895), Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes ISBN 1-59244-636-1 [12] Christian Mühling: Die europäische Debatte über den Religionskrieg (1679-1714 ...
French Huguenot leader and Admiral of France Gaspard de Coligny envisaged the establishment of New World colonies as a safe haven for his persecuted Protestant coreligionists. [2] The first such attempt was an establishment in Brazil, named France Antarctique.
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.
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]