Before condemning the Spaniards, remember that Jean Ribualt was setting that colony up as a base from which to intercept the Spanish treasure fleets.
They were pirate wannabes.
Beaufort SC remembers him. And there is/was some suggestion that Ft Caroline was in Georgia. Don’t know the status of this claim. There is also the remains of a French Fort/settlement on Parris Island. Right on the Golf Course
About a year ago, I had the opportunity to visit Fort Caroline national memorial in Jacksonville. By the St John’s River was a reproduction of what they thought Fort Caroline looked like.
The whole story (including that of the massacre of the French at Matanzas Inlet) is really quite interesting.
The reference to 'Charlestown' is more than slightly misleading as a modern reference. In 1562, Jean Ribault and party built 'Charlesfort' on (modern name) Parris Island [PI] in Beaufort County, SC. Ribault's name was for his soverign, French King Charles IX (1550-74).PI is now well known for being the East Coast USMC Recruit Depot (Basic Training).
The similarity of names between Charlesfort and Charleston (20+ miles north) is purely coincidental as the latter is named for British King Charles II, who granted the area to his supporter, George Monk, Duke of Albemarle as one of the Seven "Lords Proprietors" a century later in 1663. General Monck is one of those very capable men who were lucky in winning through dark times. He was an Army commander for Charles I, switched to being a firm friend of Cromwell and the Parliament Army, then helped Charles II in his Restoration and ended his public life as a commander in the Royal Navy during the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
Beaufort (city) has a main road named for Jean Ribault and a long history of (latter) French Huguenot settlers after their loss and deaths in the French Religious Wars (St Bartholomew Massacre of 1572). These Huguenot Settlers were a mass migration from France in the 1680s and settled this Carolina Low-country as a bulwark against Spanish encroachments from Florida.
This partially explains why the Jamestown settlers choose such a poor site for their colony. They needed to be invisible to passing Spanish ships. The Spanish were a formidable foe with a record of going after who they considered to be trespassers. They also weren’t fond of Protestants.