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1460? - 1523?. a Spanish explorer and navigator who sailed with Christopher Columbus on his first voyage to the New World, as captain of the Niña.
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He was a soldier who was the first one to set foot in Flordia. He established the oldest European settlement in Puerto Rico and discovered the Gulf Stream
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Velázquez put Cortés in command of an expedition to explore and secure the interior of Mexico for colonization
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Cortés formally claimed the land for the Spanish crown
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1475-1526. He was the first European colonizer of what is now South Carolina.
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He helped conquer Cuba in 1511 and led a Spanish royal expedition to North America (leaving Spain in 1527).De Narvaez was granted the land of Florida by the Emperor Charles V in 1526. He sailed from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with a fleet of five ships and 600 men.
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He traveled from Florida to Texas on a raft, then walked from Texas to Mexico City. He also explored the Paraguay River in South America.
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He investigated Friar de Niza's findings, on November 17, 1539, Díaz departed for Cíbola with fifteen horsemen
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On June 27 he set out from Nevada with three ships
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1508-1568. He was a Spanish explorer who accompanied Garcia Jofre de Loaysa on the second sailing expedition around the world when he was 17 years old.
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1492-1584. Spanish historian and soldier who chronicled the Spanish conquest of Mexico. In 1514, he went to America as a soldier, with Pedrarias Dávila, the new governor of Darien.
