Hernando De Soto Thesis

During the 1500’s a Spanish explorer was born. When young his parents wanted him to be a lawyer, but after he was old enough he decided to be an explorer. Hearing this The governor of Darien wanted him to join him. When De Soto began his first expedition all the other explores saw how great an explorer he was. Returning from his first expedition he was very wealthy. When you hear this you probably want to know more, so let me tell you about the Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto. Hernando de Soto was a very important mark in history for finding Arkansas and Mississippi. He was born in Jerez Caballeros, Spain. Even though He died from an illness during his travels he was a great explorer. In fact, De Soto was not in person to tell of his journeys until a Portuguese officer found his journal, and wrote of his explorations in the newspaper. In this journal, he told how he was the one to find the road to Peru's empire.

Although he was very wealthy from his return he hated to hear the stories of other explorers who had found such great findings, and lots of new lands. After so long of hearing this, he became weary and decided to start a new expedition for himself. He sold all of his belongings and gathered an army of 600 trained men. His very first expedition ever to be recorded in written records is when the governor if Darien invited him to his expedition. Davilla(governor of Darien) Heard from De Soto's hometown that he had wanted to be an explorer. This is how De Soto was found. On Davilla 2nd trip Hernando was put 2nd in command. The reason for this is because on the first trip Hernando was reported to be a great