Ortiz crossed paths with one of De Soto’s men Baltasar de Gallegos. He was under attack in an open field, Ortiz and his native followers confronted Baltasar de Gallegos and realized that Ortiz was a “Christian” and he took Ortiz to De Soto. De Soto used Ortiz as his guide because he was familiar with the land, as he stated in his letter “As soon as I landed I was informed that a Christian, Juan Ortiz, was in the power of a cacique of the country. I accordingly dispatched Baltasar de Gallegos with forty horsemen and as many foot soldiers, to bring him to camp.” Ortiz and ten of the natives met with Baltasar de Gallegos and De Soto as he stated, “I was much pleased with this good fortune.” The presence of Ortiz increased the possibility of…
Jaime Omar García was born on July 8, 1986 in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico as the second of three children to civil engineer Jaime García, Sr. and Gloria Rodríguez Flores. García was raised between the border of Reynosa, Mexico and McAllen, Texas. He attended Sharyland High School in Mission, Texas.…
Juan Ponce De Leon he was born in 1474 in the village of Santervas del Campo . He died July 1521 in Havana, Cuba for an arrow after of the travel to Florida. He was an explorer and conquistador the first to discovered Florida.…
Captain Francisco Pizarro formed a partnership in Panama with Diego de Almagro and the priest Hernando de Luque in order to explore the Pacific coast, looking for a Biru tribe that became the name Peru. His first expedition began in November 1524 with eighty men and four horses; but they suffered starvation, and Almagro lost an eye fighting natives. In 1526 they took two ships and captured a balsa raft with rich ornaments of silver and gold. Pizarro kept three captured natives to learn Spanish and be interpreters. The next year only thirteen men stayed with Pizarro on the Isla del Gallo; but in 1528 Pizarro discovered the Inca city of Tumbez. He went to Spain and at Toledo persuaded the Queen to appoint him governor and captain-general of Peru;…
1511: goes to Panama and is the first explorer to see the Pacific and the Americas…
Juan Ponce de Leon was born in 1474 and lived to 1521. He was a Spanish explorer and one of the conquerors of many lands in the New World. Very little is recorded and known about Juan Ponce de Leon’s early life. Ponce de Leon grew up in Santervás de Campos, a Spanish town located near the town of Placencia. He is reported to have fought in the Spanish campaign is 1492 that drove the the Moors out of Granada. After that, many historians agree on the fact that he then accompanied the prestigious explorer Christopher on his second expedition. Columbus’ fleet then reached the island of Hispaniola, an island in the Caribbean Sea. Then, it is believed that Ponce de Leon returned to Spain before going back to the island of Hispaniola in 1502. Although,…
states of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona on foot from coastal Louisiana to Sinaloa, Mexico, over a period of roughly six years, during which time he lived in conditions of abject poverty and, occasionally, in slavery. During his travels he developed sympathies for the indigenous population. Among the natives, he lived as a slave, passing from tribe to tribe. He eventually became a trader, which allowed him freedom from his enslavement and to travel among the tribes. Eventually, after returning to the colonized reaches of New Spain and encountering a group of fellow Spaniards in the vicinity of modern-day Culiacán, he went on to Mexico City and returned to Europe in 1537. Cabeza de Vaca wrote about his experiences in a report for Emperor Charles V. It was later published in 1542, under the title La Relación (The Report). Cabeza de Vaca desired to succeed Pánfilo de Narváez (whose ineptitude had caused the deaths of most of the party) as governor of Florida and return there, but Charles V had already appointed De Soto to lead the next expedition. He declined to travel with the expedition as second in command and jealously refused to give his countrymen any details of the country that might prepare them for the hardships they would surely…
Pizarro traveled to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in 1502 with the governor of that Spanish colony. He took part in an expedition to Colombia in 1510 and there years later he traveled with Vasco Nunez de Balboa in a journey that ended in the discovery of the Pacific Ocean. From 1519 to 1523 he served as mayor of the town of Panama.…
In early 1527, Cabeza de Vaca departed Spain as a part of a royal expedition to occupy the mainland of North America. As treasurer, he was one of the chief officers on the Narváez expedition. The Narváez expedition is an expedition based on a famous conquistador Narváez was also included on the expedition. Within several months of their landing near Tampa Bay, Florida on April 15, 1528 the expedition included a party of 600 men.…
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca unlike most other Spanish conquistadors came to perceive Native Americans as equals. On February 15, 1527 Cabeza de Vaca was appointed to an expedition, headed for the mainland of North America. The expedition landed near what is now Tampa Bay, Florida sometime in March 1528. Devastated by misfortune the expedition dwindled rapidly. Cabeza de Vaca and three other members however survived. His endurance now tested Cabeza de Vaca lived as a trader and healer among Native Americans of the Rio Grande Basin learning from them and eventually speaking on their behalf to the Spanish crown.…
Because of the power he held, his power and authority were constantly being challenged. By 1523, he was the governor and captain general of New Spain. However, Cortes’s reign of power would not last forever and in only five years time. He was forced to return to Spain to have most of his power stripped of him. The king of Spain reinstated him as just captain general which greatly reduced his power. Not only that, Cortes’s actions were being monitored, with the belief that he may be plotting treason or abusing his power. Cortes returned to New Spain, and he continued exploring Central America in hopes of finding a strait to connect the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Though his attempts failed, Cortes did manage to find and name California. Cortes then retired and traveled back to Spain where spent the rest of his life seeking recognition of his achievements and support from the royal Spanish court. Cortes finally passed away near Seville in…
On November 8, 1519, Aztec Emperor Moctezuma and Spanish Conquistador Hernan Cortes met for the first time outside the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan. Aztec accounts of the event, compiled by Miguel Leon-Portillo shortly after and published as The Broken Spears, claim that Moctezuma (also Montezuma) believed Cortes was a god. “Our Lord, you are weary. The journey has tired you, but now you have arrived on the earth. You have come here to site on your throne, to sit under its canopy.” The accounts also say that Cortes told Moctezuma, “We have come to your house in Mexico as friends. There is nothing to fear.” Moctezuma would soon be dead, and Cortes would be the ruler of New Spain.…
Juan Ponce de Leon was born around 1460 in San Tervas de Campos, Spain. He was the first Spanish explorer to arrive in Florida. In 1493, Ponce de Leon and Christopher Columbus sailed together on Columbus’ 2nd voyage to America. They had settled on an island named Hispaniola, which is present day Dominican Republic, where Ponce de Leon had become governor at. In 1506, he had discovered an island close by named Borinquen, and during his time here, he found lots of gold. Once he made this discovery and took most of it, he left the island of Borinquen. In 1508, he was ordered by the king of Spain to return to Borinquen to colonize it. Later on, he had renamed this island Puerto Rico. He became the island’s governor for two years until he was replaced with Columbus’s son by the king.…
soldiers who made the long journey was a young man named Pedro de Cieza de Leon. He…
Hello kids, my name is Vasco Nunez De Balboa. Most of you should know a little about me because you studied about me but any way I am here to give you more information about me and my explorations. So everyone fasten your seatbelts!! We are going back to the world in the 1400’s.…