In an announcement likely to rewrite the book on early colonization of the New World, two researchers have proposed a location for the oldest fortified settlement ever found in North America. They ...

Here, at L’Anse aux Meadows—the name is probably a garbled reference to an old French naval vessel—lies what is still the only known Norse settlement in North America.

Place Royale is a significant spot in the founding of Quebec more than 400 years ago. It was the site of the first permanent French settlement in North America.

However, as North America was in the process of settlement, it was only inevitable that the three forces would eventually clash. Both the French and the English eyed the Ohio Valley area, between ...

North America, a vast and diverse continent, is home to nearly 600 million people and a wide range of habitats. Today, we explore the first people to settle in the Americas, from the icy North to ...

DARIEN, Ga., Feb. 21 (UPI) -- The oldest fortified settlement in North America has been discovered in Georgia, giving insights into the early colonization of the New World, researchers say. Fort ...

The first Pilgrims to reach America seeking religious freedom were English and settled in Massachusetts. Right? Well, not so fast. Some fifty years before the Mayflower left port, a band of French ...

The settlement: Danske Bank, the largest in Denmark, said Wednesday it had cooperated with French authorities and agreed to pay 6.33 million euros in a settlement with France’s national ...

PARIS (Reuters) - French group Veolia said it had agreed to sell its sulfuric acid regeneration business in North America to private equity firm American Industrial Partners for an enterprise ...

It was the first sustained European settlement in North America during the so-called "Age of Discovery." ... But to command La Florida, they would have to defeat the French, ...

Scurvy wiped out nearly half of the colonists who established one of the first French settlements in North America 400 years ago, scientists confirmed on Monday. The colony existed in 1604 and ...