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A proposed route for the de Soto Expedition, based on Charles M. Hudson map of 1997. [1] This is a list of sites and peoples visited by the Hernando de Soto Expedition in the years 1539–1543. In May 1539, de Soto left Havana, Cuba, with nine ships, over 620 men and 220 surviving horses and landed at Charlotte Harbor, Florida. This began his ...
De Soto returned to report that he found no signs of an army in the area. After executing Atahualpa, Pizarro and his men headed to Cuzco, the capital of the Incan Empire. As the Spanish force approached Cuzco, Pizarro sent his brother Hernando and de Soto ahead with 40 men. The advance guard fought a pitched battle with Inca troops in front of ...
The ethnolinguistic heritage is recognized as Muskogean and Siouan. It was inhabited from A.D. 1250 to the late 17th century. When the Spanish conquistador, Hernando De Soto, and his men encountered the area in 1540, Cofitachequi extended east to the towns of Llapi and Ylasi close to the Pee Dee River.
De Soto National Memorial is a national memorial located in Manatee County, approximately five miles (eight kilometers) west of Bradenton, Florida.The national memorial commemorates the 1539 landing of Hernando de Soto and the first extensive organized exploration by Europeans of what is now the southern United States.
Quigualtam or Quilgualtanqui was a powerful Native American Plaquemine culture polity encountered in 1542–1543 by the Hernando de Soto expedition. The capital of the polity and its chieftain also bore the same name; although neither the chief nor his settlements were ever visited in person by the expedition.
Sarasota has long history of avoiding catastrophic storms. Hurricanes caused havoc in varying degrees in 1926, 1944 and 1950, as well as Donna in 1960. Charley was a near-miss in 2004 when its ...
de Soto route through the Caddo area, with known archaeological phases marked. The Tula were possibly a Caddoan people, but this is not certain. Based on the descriptions of the various chroniclers, "Tula Province", or their homeland, may have been at the headwaters of the Ouachita, Caddo, Little Missouri, Saline, and Cossatot Rivers in Arkansas.
De Soto, Kansas (named for sixteenth-century Spanish explorer, Hernando De Soto) De Soto, Missouri (the city, organized in 1857, was named for the explorer Hernando De Soto, who claimed the Louisiana Territory for Spain) DeSoto, Texas (named so for Thomas Hernando DeSoto Stewart, a doctor of Spanish partially descent dedicated to the community)