Hernando de Soto
De Soto, Hernando - dĭsōˈtō, Span. ĕrnänˈdō dā sōˈtō, c.1500–1542, Spanish explorer. After serving under Pedrarias in Central America and under Francisco Pizarro in Peru, the dashing young conquistador was made governor of Cuba by Emperor Charles V, with the right to conquer Florida (meaning the North Read More...
De Soto, Hernando - dĭsōˈtō, Span. ĕrnänˈdō dā sōˈtō, c.1500–1542, Spanish explorer. After serving under Pedrarias in Central America and under Francisco Pizarro in Peru, the dashing young conquistador was made governor of Cuba by Emperor Charles V, with the right to conquer Florida (meaning the North American mainland). He led an expedition that left Spain in 1538 and landed on the Florida coast, probably near Tampa Bay, in 1539. That was the start of an adventure that took him and his band nearly halfway across the continent in search of gold, silver, and jewels, which they never found. After wintering near Tallahassee they went N through Georgia and the Carolinas into Tennessee, then turned S into Alabama, where De Soto was wounded in a battle with Native Americans. He was so determined to continue his treasure hunt that he refused to inform his men that Spanish vessels were off the coast. In the spring of 1541 they again set forth and were probably the first white men to see and cross the Mississippi. A journey up the Arkansas River and into Oklahoma disclosed no treasures, and, discouraged, they turned back to the banks of the Mississippi. There De Soto died; he was buried in the river, so that the Native Americans, whom he had intimidated and ill-used, would not learn of his death. His men went west again across the Red River into N Texas, then returned to the Mississippi and followed it to the sea. A remnant of the expedition made its way down the coast to arrive at Veracruz in 1543. The chief chronicle of the expedition is by a Portuguese called the Gentleman of Elvas, See biographies by R. B. C. Graham (1924), T. Maynard (1930, repr. 1969), B. Shipp (1831, repr. 1971), and M. Albornoz (1986); studies by R. F. Schell (1966) and P. Lily (1983). The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright© 2004, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved. |
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The Hernando de Soto Expedition: History, Historiography, and "Discovery" in the Southeast
by Patricia Galloway. 466 pgs.
From 1539 to 1542, Hernando de Soto and several hundred men cut a path of destruction and disease across the Southeast of America. These multidisciplinary essays investigate the cultural and literary impact of this expedition on the native American societies they encountered.
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The de Soto Chronicles: The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543, Vol. I
by Lawrence A. Clayton, Vernon James Knight, Edward C. Moore. 588 pgs.
XVI: The Thirty Horsemen Reach the Place Where Captain Pedro CalderÓn Is, and How They Were ReceivedXXXVI: Our Men Encamp in ChicaÇa. the Indians Give Them a Most Cruel and Unexpected Nocturnal BattleIV: The Spaniards Enter Guachoya. It is Told How the Indians Have Perpetual Warfare with One Another
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The De Soto Chronicles: The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543, Vol. II
by Lawrence A. Clayton, Vernon James Knight Jr., Edward C. Moore. 596 pgs.
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The Florida of the Inca: A History of the Adelantado, Hernando de Soto, Governor and Captain General of the Kingdom of Florida, and of Other Heroic Spanish and Indian Cavaliers
by John Grier Varner, Jeannette Johnson Varner, Garcilaso de la Vega. 656 pgs.
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First Encounters: Spanish Explorations in the Caribbean and the United States, 1492-1570 (Chap. 6 "Hernando de Soto's Expedition through the Southern United States")
by Jerald T. Milanich, Susan Milbrath. 224 pgs.
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Towns and Temples along the Mississippi (Chap. 10 "The Hernando de Soto Expedition: From Mabila to the Mississippi River")
by David H. Dye, Cheryl Anne Cox. 292 pgs.
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Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe ("The Army of Hernando de Soto" begins on p. 127)
by Jerald T. Milanich. 290 pgs.
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The Spanish Borderlands: A Chronicle of Old Florida and the Southwest (Chap. III "Hernando de Soto")
by Herbert E. Bolton. 326 pgs.
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