HERNANDO DE SOTO

WHO WAS HERNANDO?

• Hernando was a spanish explorer
• And conquistador who led the first
• European expedition deep into the
• Territory of modern-day United States

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• Hernando was excessively
• famous for helping to defeat
• the Inca Empire in the New
• world and for leading the
• first European expedition

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• to reach the Mississippi
• river.

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• Hernando started his expedition
• on April 6th, 1538 with 10 ships and
• a crew of 700 men.
• The crew faced many ambushes
• and vicious enslaved natives along

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• the way. The worst battle was
• faced in Tuscaloosa against Indians.
• In 1532 Hernando joined the expedition
• of Francisco Pizzaro starting from Panama
• for the conquest of Peru. They came across

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• the road of the Incan Empire. They conquered
• the Incan Empire. Hernando returned to Spain
• Hernando returned to Spain in 1536with
• With 18,000 ounces of gold taken from the incas