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Hernando de Soto was born around the late 1490s or early 1500s in Extremadura, Spain, to parents who were both hidalgos, nobility of modest means.The region was poor and many people struggled to survive; young people looked for ways to seek their fortune elsewhere.
DeSoto County, Mississippi, was formally established February 9, 1836. [4] The original county lines included territory now part of Tate County, which was carved out in 1873. [4] The county is named for Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, the first European explorer known to reach the Mississippi River. [5]
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 ...
Hernando is the county seat of DeSoto County, on the northwestern border of Mississippi, United States. [5] The population was 17,138 according to the 2020 census records. [ 6 ] It is located on the south side of the Memphis, Tennessee metro area .
De Soto National Forest, named for 16th-century Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto, is 518,587 acres (810 sq mi; 2,099 km 2) of pine forests in southern Mississippi. It is one of the most important protected areas for the biological diversity of the Gulf Coast ecoregion of North America.
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.
The poem claims Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto brought his daughter Sara with him to Florida, but there’s no record of her ever existing. LaHurd points out, too, that if de Soto did have a ...
The list of sites and peoples visited by the Hernando de Soto Expedition chronicles those villages. Some encounters were violent, while others were relatively peaceful. In some cases, de Soto seems to have been used as a tool or ally in long-standing native feuds. In one example, de Soto negotiated a truce between the Pacaha and the Casqui.