He was born to parents who lived in extremadura, an area of great hardship and poverty. Four written accounts of the expedition provide details about his trek through the state. His travels took him through presentday georgia, the carolinas, tennessee, arkansas, oklahoma, louisiana, texas, and mississippi. He washed ashore on the banks of the mississippi river now known as lake village, arkansas. Comply and give in to the spanish demands, resist and be attacked or abandon the homeland until the spanish were gone. He then began an extensive trek of exploration across a broad swath of what today is the southeastern portion of the united states. His men buried him in the mississippi river in the middle of the night after he passed. He was the first european to meet the inca chief atahualpa and did so. He forded the savannah rivers branches at shell landings broad flats on that river.
In 1539 he set out for north america, where he discovered the mississippi river. Little is known about his early life, but he chose a career in the military and served in several central american campaigns. He and his soldiers were the first europeans to set foot in what is now arkansas. In 1530, he joined francisco pizarro in the conquest of the incas in peru. Moscoso expedition the handbook of texas online texas.
This day we lost many pigs that we had brought tame from cuba, which the current carried off. He captained part of the fleet that defeated the incas and was the first. He also took the record as the first european who crossed mississippi river. This is a presentation for my american history class, enjoy. Fortunately for the spanish the inca empire was experiencing a bloody civil war between. His exploration of the southeastern united states in search of a passage to china and untold riches gave europeans their first substantial assessment of the north american continent. The army of an estimated 600 men sighted land on may 25, 1539, on the western coast of florida near what is now tampa. He is the president of the institute for liberty and democracy ild, located in. He lead the first european expedition deep into the territory of the modernday united states and was probably the first european to discover the mississippi river.
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