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The French abandoned Florida

Source: Historical proof of the right of the Catholic King to the territory held to-day by the British King under the name of New Georgia #558

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2. The French Abandon the Settlement: t[Arredondo note t Nicolas de Fer.] During the absence of Jean, Albert Ribaut was violently murdered by his own men, who mutinied against him because he would not agree to abandon the country. On account of the delay of aid from France, the disasters suffered by them were so great that Nicolas Barri, who was chosen from among themselves in place of Albert, left the country, compelled by hardships. A large part of them died miserably during the voyage, and all would have perished had they not met an Englishman who conducted part of them to England and part to the shores of France. On his arrival there Ribaut found nothing but sedition, tumults, sacrilege, and misfortunes, occasioned by the Huguenots, who were so greatly afflicting and troubling that Christian kingdom that the Admiral, who was occupied with greater matters, could not come to the aid of Ribaut with the necessary supplies for a renewal of the undertaking, and that Ribaut could not continue what had been begun.