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Hernando de Soto

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Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto
BornOctober 27, 1496 or 1498 or 1500 [1]:135
in Jerez de los Caballeros, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain
Dee'd(1542-05-21)21 Mey 1542 (aged 45)
Bank o Mississippi River, Present day Ferriday, Louisiana [2][3]
NaitionalitySpainyie
Thriftexplorer an conquistador
ReleegionRoman Catholicism
Hauf-marrae(s)Isabel De Rupodio
Signatur

Hernando de Soto (October 21, 1496[4]– Mey 21, 1542) wis a Spaingie explorer an conquistador who led the first European expedeetion deep intae the territory o the modren-day Unitit States (Florida, Georgie, Alabama an maist likely Arkansas), an the first documentot European tae hae crossed the Mississippi River.[5]

References

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  1. Leon, P., 1998, The Discovery and Conquest of Peru, Chronicles of the New World Encounter, edited and translated by Cook and Cook, Durham: Duke University Press, ISBN 9780822321460
  2. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/de-soto-dies-in-the-american-wilderness
  3. http://www.biography.com/people/hernando-de-soto-38469#exploring-north-america
  4. "Archived copy". Archived frae the original on 12 September 2015. Retrieved 27 August 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. Morison, Samuel (1974). The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages, 1492–1616. New York: Oxford University Press.