Port Royal is a town in Beaufort County, South Carolina, USA. Port Royal was first settled in 1562 by a band of Huguenots under Jean Ribault. The colony was soon reinforced by Rene Laudonniere, but it was not wholly successful, even at the first. Then Pedro de Menendez, appointed Spanish Governor of Florida, after founding St Augustine in 1565, inarched along the coast and destroyed the French settlement, while Jean Ribault was sailing unsuccessfully against St Augustine. In revenge for this a French gentleman, Dominic de Gourgues, in 1567 destroyed the Spanish settlement at St Augustine by a private expedition.
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