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Cabot went looking for a water route through the Americas that would lead to Asia. He failed to find the Northwestern Passage.
Eventually Europeans gave up on their search for the route. -
He first landed in the Bahamas and then went again on a voyage and found South America later named "America."
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He landed on the east coast of Florida
The ship sailed down the east Florida coast and through the Florida Keys. -
At first he landed at the North Carolina's Outer Banks.
He then went farther up the coast and then retrned to France. -
Hernando sailed with a military expedition from Havana, Cuba, to the west coast of Florida.
From there, de Soto's soldiers marched northward to a site near present-day Tallahassee, Florida.
They then spent the winter of 1539-1540 there.
In spring de Soto crossed Georgia and South Carolina and passed through the western tip of North Carolina.
De Soto and his men were the first to see these regions.
De soto died on the trip, but many of his men returned to Mexico. -
Pedro Menendez de Aviles was sent with troops to Florida.
A storm wrecked his fleet.
He captured Fort Caroline and killed most of the French defenders.