Hernando de Soto

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1536 De Soto returned to Spain in 1536, with wealth gathered from plunder in the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
1541 De Soto's expedition led the Spanish crown to reconsider Spain's attitude toward the colonies north of Mexico. He claimed large parts of North America for Spain.
1541 His dramatic and brilliantly colored canvas shows Spanish conqueror and explorer Hernando DeSoto, riding a white horse, the first European to view the Mississippi River, in 1541.
1542 In 1542, Hernando de Soto conducted an expedition through the southeastern United States and came into contact with at least three Cherokee villages.
Discovery of the Mississippi (painting)
Failing that, and without means to explore further, de Soto, upon Pedro Arias DÃ¡vila's death, left his estates in Nicaragua.
He(Hernando de Soto) is the first European documented as having crossed the Mississippi River.
Hernando de Soto claimed large parts of North America for Spain. The Spanish concentrated their missions in the state of Florida and along the Pacific coast.