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  2. Battle of Maraycalla - Wikipedia

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    The battle of Maraycalla was fought in 1534 between Spanish conquistadors and renegade forces of the Inca Empire [1] (Atahualpa faction of the Inca Civil War), whose capital Cuzco had been taken by the Spaniards in November 1533. The Inca army was commanded by famous general Quizquiz. After losing the battle, Quizquiz' army retreated via ...

  3. Hernando de Soto - Wikipedia

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    Hernando de Soto was born around the late 1490s or early 1500s in Extremadura, Spain, to parents who were both hidalgos, nobility of modest means.The region was poor and many people struggled to survive; young people looked for ways to seek their fortune elsewhere.

  4. List of sites and peoples visited by the Hernando de Soto ...

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    A proposed route for the de Soto Expedition, based on Charles M. Hudson map of 1997. [1] This is a list of sites and peoples visited by the Hernando de Soto Expedition in the years 1539–1543. In May 1539, de Soto left Havana, Cuba, with nine ships, over 620 men and 220 surviving horses and landed at Charlotte Harbor, Florida. This began his ...

  5. Exploration of North America - Wikipedia

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    In 1534, Jacques Cartier ... In 1539 Hernando De Soto leads the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States (through Florida, ...

  6. Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire - Wikipedia

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    Pizarro sent Hernando de Soto to the Atahualpa's camp. De Soto rode to meet Atahualpa on his horse, an animal that Atahualpa had never seen before. [note 1] With one of his young interpreters, Soto read a prepared speech to Atahualpa telling him that they had come as servants of God to teach them the truth about God's word. [13]

  7. 16th century in North American history - Wikipedia

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    In the futile search of gold, Hernando de Soto explored the inland from Florida to Arkansas, introducing swine to southern North America and effectively improving European knowledge about the geography, biology, and ethnology of the New World. 1568

  8. Luis de Moscoso Alvarado - Wikipedia

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    A proposed route for the de Soto and de Moscoso Expedition, based on Charles M. Hudson map of 1997. [3] After returning to Peru, [1] Alvarado and his two brothers decided to work with Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto. Soto and Alvarado returned to Spain in 1536 due to discord between Diego de Almagro and Francisco Pizarro. In Spain, apparently ...

  9. The De Soto Chronicles - Wikipedia

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    The De Soto Chronicles: The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America, 1539–1543 is a two volume book collection edited by Lawrence A. Clayton, Vernon James Knight, Jr., and Edward C. Moore, published in 1993 by The University of Alabama Press.