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Juan Ponce de León accompanied Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the New World. He was ap- pointed the first Governor of Puerto Rico and is also credited with the first known European excursion to Florida.
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Hernando Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Cortes formally claimed Mexican land for the Spanish crown in 1519.
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Francisco Pizarro conquered the Inca Empire and took part in explorations of the northern Caribbean coast of South America.
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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado explored Arizona, New Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, the Grand Canyon and the Texas panhandle while searching for the Seven Golden Cites of Cibola in what is now Arizona. Coronado led Spaniards and Native Americans on an expedition of the southwestern part of the U.S.
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St. Augustine was founded by the Spanish and is the oldest city in the present-day United States of America.
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Sebastián Vizcaíno, a Spanish soldier, entrepreneur, explorer, and diplomat was commissioned to explore and map the western coast. He designated many of the coastal landmarks that we know today, including San Diego.
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arrived and explored the hudson river led by henry hudson
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Santa Fe San Miguel Mission was founded as the capital of the Spanish colony of New Mexico.
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were sent to explore the mississippi river
