Hernando de Soto did many great things while he was young , he was a great English Explorer. He was born between the years of 1499 and1500.He was the second son of Spanish hidalgo (a cross bettween a medieval knight and a squire).Hernando was not educated for very long,infact he was educated until the age of fourteen years old.Did you know that he was a spanish conquistador (conquorer) and explorer.He was also known as the first european to explore Flordia and Southeast America.
In 1514 Hernando de Soto left home on a suspenseful and long voyage to the Indies.Then in 1519 he joins "an exploration of discoveries" to Panama in South America where he makes a mark as a captain of horseback riding.In 1524 Hernando de Soto went on a expidition to Nicaraqua , and South America, with Francieir de Cordoba.And he also went on a engaged on the profitable slave trade.
None of Hernandos maps or field notes is known to be used today His chronicalers,described some of his movements and activity calling him Governor. He is referred to as" De Soto "throughout this life , that being common , although just" Soto" is okay. I do believe that each chronicler reported what he saw or understood, but that each saw and heard things from different points of view. The confusion of unexplored wilderness they and their informants were among tribes who spoke languages so "alien 'that place names varied among them. Their only Spanish speaking interperter
Hernando de Soto was a spanish conquistador who landed in flordia in the year of 1539.Then he sailed around the southeastearn and midwestearn parts of North America until he died in 1542.Little is known of Hernandos of early life ,other than that was only kind of noticed in Spain , did you know that he made it to Panama by the time was fourteenyears old.
In 1519 Hernando had a reputation as being a fierce fighter and expert horeman, and is known to have been in on Francisco Pizarros conquest of Peru in the 1530s. In 1537 he returned to Spain a well known very rich man and got a wife .And in 1538 he became govenor of Cuba and given a commision.
Did you know Hernando De Soto, the Spanish explorer, helped to defeat the Inca empire and led the first European expedition to reach the Mississippi River. From 1539 to 1542, he led a Spanish expedition through the southern United States. His army landed in Florida and crossed about 10 states.
De Soto became known as a well known courageous explorer who helped conquer the New World "for "Spain. The era of exploration was marked by greed,and cruelty. In their search for wealth, Hernando and his army tortured and killed many Indians.
Hernando de Soto was born in the province of Extremadura in Spain. As a teenager, he sailed to the New World and began his career as an explorer in the t rain forests of Panama. Hernando went on expeditions to enslave Indians and to search for wealth and spices.
By the early 1530s, he was known as an excellent soldier and horseman. He joined an expedition led by Francisco Pizarro another, Spanish explorer, against the empire of the Inca Indians in what is now Peru. After a short delay, the men began their journey in 1532 with a small army of 168 men. They reached the city of Cajamarca, where a huge Inca army, commanded by Emperor Atahualpa, was camped.
Pizarro sent de Soto with a small troop of 15 cavalrymen to invite Atahualpa to meet with Pizarro. The Spaniards ambushed the Inca and captured their emperor. Although the Inca paid an enormous ransom for their emperor, the Spaniards executed him. De Soto helped Pizarro capture Cusco, the Inca's capital, in 1533.
In 1536, de Soto returned to Spain a rich man from treasures collected during the Inca conquest. He could have led a noble lifestyle, but he sought his own command in the New World. King Charles I of Spain appointed him governor of Cuba and authorized him to conquer and colonize the region that is now the southeastern United States.
De Soto arrived near present-day Tampa Bay in 1539. He brought more than 600 men equipped with horses to help him colonize the land and search for gold. De Soto planned to capture Indian chiefs, take hundreds of Indians as ransom, and march through their territories.
The army camped for the winter in what is now northern Florida, possibly in Tallahassee, and headed north during the spring and summer of 1540. They traveled through the present-day states of Georgia and the Carolinas, crossed the Great Smoky Mountains, and headed south through the Georgia and Alabama area. In October 1540, followers of the Choctaw leader Tuscaloosa ambushed de Soto's army at the town of Mabila, south of Montgomery, Alabama. Other than becoming victorious, Hernandos army retreated to the north. They traveled through the Mississippi area, crossed the Mississippi River, and explored the Arkansas region and other present-day states west of the river.
On May 21, 1542, de Hernando died from a fever by the Mississippi River.
