The world: historical and actual . country Posciim Florida. He was in search of thefabled fountain of youth. No practical results fol-lowed, de Leon receiving a wound in an encounterwith the natives which proved fatal to him in in 1539 Fernando deSoto, a Spanish noblemanwho had teen with Cortez inMexico and Pizarro in Peru,amassing a large fortune, wascommissioned to take posses-sion of Florida. He fittedout a large fleet. He had 000men with him and a goodlysupply of domestic animals,including bloodhounds. InMay of the next year he landed. For three yearslie and his men wandered about
The world: historical and actual . country Posciim Florida. He was in search of thefabled fountain of youth. No practical results fol-lowed, de Leon receiving a wound in an encounterwith the natives which proved fatal to him in in 1539 Fernando deSoto, a Spanish noblemanwho had teen with Cortez inMexico and Pizarro in Peru,amassing a large fortune, wascommissioned to take posses-sion of Florida. He fittedout a large fleet. He had 000men with him and a goodlysupply of domestic animals,including bloodhounds. InMay of the next year he landed. For three yearslie and his men wandered about in search of ? was the first to discover the Mississippi finally perished in the wilderness. In 1505 PedroMenendez. another Spaniard, landed in Florida. Hehad 3,000 men with him. They founded the city ofSt. Augustine, which now has the honor of beingthe oldest European town in the United States. Three years before, a French settlement had beeneffected at Port Royal, South Carolina. AdmiralColigny, the great Hugueno
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