Discovery and exploration (Other Keyword)
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The expedition of Hernando de Soto passed through what is now the southeastern United States in A.D. 1539-1541. The expedition consisted of approximately 600 soldiers, 400 slaves and laborers, 200 horses, and a herd of pigs that may have numbered in the hundreds. It was an expedition for gold, glory, and God; in that order. The Spanish Crown wanted to expand its ever growing international power base by occupying "la Florida." As the new governor of "la Florida", Soto wanted to make his mark on...
A symposium on the place of discovery of the Mississippi River by Hernando de Soto (1927)
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