Hernando de Soto
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Evidence found in Ga. of Spanish explorer's trail...up beads, metal tools and other artifacts that may pinpoint part of the elusive trail of the 16th-century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto. Dennis Blanton of the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta was scheduled to present his... In this article: Hernando de Soto, Georgia, Silver, Telfair County, Ocmulgee River, Mississippi River, and Macon, Georgia |
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Miami Herald | November 05, 2009
Evidence found in Ga. of Spanish explorer's trail
In this article: Georgia, Silver, The Miami Herald, Telfair County, Ocmulgee River, and Mississippi River
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Wikipedia | November 04, 2009
Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire
...Pizarro had 168 men under his command: 106 on foot and 62 on horses. Then, Pizarro sent his captain Hernando de Soto to invite Atahualpa to a meeting. Soto rode to meet Atahualpa on his horse, an animal that Atahualpa had never seen before.
In this article: Atahualpa, Francisco Pizarro, Sapa Inca, Huascar, Manco Inca Yupanqui, Diego de Almagro, and Inca
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Spanish Florida
...the Texas coast. After eight years four survivors, including Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, reached New Spain (Mexico). Hernando de Soto had been one of Francisco Pizarro's chief lieutenants in the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, and had...
In this article: Florida, St. Augustine, Tampa Bay, Georgia, Spain, and Fort Caroline
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Hernando de Soto Bridge
...the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge (carrying Interstate 55) downstream. The bridge is named for 16th century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto who explored this stretch of the Mississippi River, and died south of Memphis. His body was believed...
In this article: Mississippi River, Hernando de Soto Bridge, Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis & Arkansas Bridge, Lake Chicot, West Memphis, Arkansas, and Arkansas
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Castillo de la Real Fuerza
...suggestion is to honour Ines de Bobadilla, Havana's only female governor, who assumed control from her husband Hernando de Soto when he undertook an expedition to Florida. She spent many years scanning the horizon for signs of his...
In this article: Havana, Rum, Cuban Revolution, Phillip II of Spain, and Ines de Bobadilla
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Montgomery County, Arkansas
...the definite presence of the Caddo Indians having settled in the area in the 13th century and 14th century. In 1541, the explorer Hernando de Soto fought the Tula Indians at Caddo Gap, and that he was injured during that battle. The first...
In this article: Montgomery County, Mount Ida, Richard Montgomery, Arkansas, and World War II
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De Soto Parish, Louisiana
...Statistical Area as well as the Shreveport-Bossier City-Minden Combined Statistical Area . The parish is named for Hernando de Soto , the Spaniard who explored the future southeastern United States and discovered and named the...
In this article: De Soto Parish, Louisiana, Mansfield, Louisiana, Alfred Mouton, Prince de Polignac, United States, Mississippi River, and Texas
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Ocmulgee River
...remnants of several prehistoric Native American villages at Ocmulgee National Monument in Macon. In 1540 Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto traversed the region and baptized Native American converts in the river. In the 18th century, the...
In this article: Ocmulgee River, Macon, Georgia, Georgia, Lake Jackson, United States Army, U.S., and Piedmont
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DeGray Lake
...of the lake. The history of the DeGray area dates back to AD 700 when the area was inhabited by the Caddo Indians. Hernando de Soto then came and explored this area in 1541, after discovering hot springs. The Caddo Indians' way of life...
In this article: DeGray Lake, Caddo River, Arkansas, River and Harbor Act, Henderson State University, Southwestern Power Administration, and Ouachita Mountains
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Gil Gonzalez Davila
...was forced to return south with a warning to vacate the area. Cordoba sent a small force under command of Hernando de Soto to deal with Gonzalez. Soto was caught in a stealthy attack, but managed to defend himself. Then the two called a truce...
In this article: Gil Gonzalez Davila, Martin Cortes, Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba, Pedrarias, Juan Rodriguez de Fonseca, Nicaragua, and Panama
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Hernando de Soto (Jerez de los Caballeros, c.1496/1497–May 21, 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who, while leading the first European expedition to the territory of the modern-day United States, was the first European to discover the Mississippi River.
A vast undertaking, de Soto's expedition ranged throughout the southeastern United States searching for gold and a passage to China. De Soto died in 1542 on the banks of the Mississippi River at present-day Lake Village, Arkansas. Hernando de Soto was born to parents who were hidalgos of modest means in Extremadura, a region of poverty and hardship from which many young people looked for ways to seek their fortune elsewhere. Two towns—Badajoz and Jerez de los Caballeros—claim to be his birthplace. All that is known with certainty is that he spent time as a child at both places and he stipulated in his will that his body be interred at Jerez de los Caballeros, where other members of his family were also interred. The age of the Conquerors came on the heels of the Spanish reconquest of the Iberian peninsula from Islamic forces. Spain and Portugal were filled with young men begging for a chance to find military fame after the Moors were defeated. With discovery of new lands to the West (which seemed at the time to be far East Asia), the whispers of glory and wealth were too compelling for the poor.
During that time, Juan Ponce de León, who discovered Florida, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, who discovered the Pacific (he called it the "South Sea" below Panama), and Ferdinand Magellan, who first sailed that ocean to the Orient, profoundly influenced De Soto's ambitions.
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