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.

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 ...

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 ...

Both empire-builders, Great Britain rivaled the French for domination of North America. France. France, which had North American settlements in Canada, Louisiana, and the Great Lakes region ...

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 ...

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, ...