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  2. 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 ...

  3. DeSoto Site Historic State Park - Wikipedia

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    DeSoto Site Historic State Park is a Florida state park located in Tallahassee, Florida.It consists of 5 acres (20,000 m 2) of land near Apalachee Parkway, including the residence of former Governor John W. Martin.

  4. 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.

  5. Cofitachequi - Wikipedia

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    A map showing the Cofitachequi kingdom/paramountcy and its political structure in detail in the year 1538. Cofitachequi (pronounced Coffee—Ta—Check—We) [1] was a paramount chiefdom founded about AD 1300 and encountered by the Hernando de Soto expedition in South Carolina in April 1540.

  6. De Soto National Memorial - Wikipedia

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    De Soto National Memorial is a national memorial located in Manatee County, approximately five miles (eight kilometers) west of Bradenton, Florida. The national memorial commemorates the 1539 landing of Hernando de Soto and the first extensive organized exploration by Europeans of what is now the southern United States .

  7. Hernando de Soto Bridge - Wikipedia

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    The bridge is named for 16th century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, who explored this stretch of the Mississippi River and died south of Memphis. [8] Hernando de Soto Bridge illuminated at night in 2015. At night, the bridge was illuminated by 200 sodium vapor lights along its "M" structure. The bridge was first illuminated on September 5 ...

  8. Coosa chiefdom - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Paramount Chiefdom/Kingdom of Coosa in March 1538 (right before the De Soto expedition), along with its internal chiefdoms and neighboring states. [original research?] The Coosa chiefdom was a powerful Native American paramount chiefdom in what are now Gordon and Murray counties in Georgia, in the United States. [1]

  9. De Soto National Forest - Wikipedia

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    De Soto National Forest, named for 16th-century Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto, is 518,587 acres (810 sq mi; 2,099 km 2) of pine forests in southern Mississippi. It is one of the most important protected areas for the biological diversity of the Gulf Coast ecoregion of North America.