This man's prowess as a horseman helped gain him a spot on Pedro Davila's expedition to the West Indies.
This man's prowess as a horseman helped gain him a spot on Pedro Davila's expedition to the West Indies. He accumulated considerable capital through his slave trading on Nicaragua and Panama, and in 1530, he lent Pizarro two ships to search for gold in northwestern Colombia. In April 1538 he landed on the west coast of Florida and moved northwest before fighting a group of Indians near Mobile Bay. Early in 1542 he died in Louisiana, but, FTP, what Spaniard led the party who first observed the Mississippi river.
This man's prowess as a horseman helped gain him a spot on Pedro Davila's expedition to the West Indies.
Hernando {de Soto}