The year is 1514 and I'm sailing to the west indies with Arias Dávila, later I will be exploring these countries: Panama, Nicaragua, and Honduras. These countries are different compared to my home town Jerez De Caballeros, Spain. My crew and I than took an expedition in Central America in hope for riches; Francisco Pizarro joined me in 1532 in a Peru conquest, there I found Peruvian treasures which made him rich, I was so rich that I could go on another quest!
On May 30,1935 we made it to Tampa Bay, Florida in the new world in hope for some big time riches like gold. We then marched northward to Georgia, than to the west Alabama River; which took me to Mobile bay and that is how I found the Mississippi River near the present site of Memphis, Tennessee in the spring of 1541. …show more content…
We forced the indians to tell us where the gold was hidden since they lived here and knew the land better than I did. That led to the biggest bloodiest fight ever, we fought at Mobile Bay where 70 spaniards were killed and me and my crew were hurt terribly but we lived. They thought that they had us big time but I tell you what, I still explored this land whether they liked it or not. We built boats, to forge the Mississippi river, we were the first ones to ever cross that river; came to Oklahoma, then turned eastward.
We reached the indians again and I asked where the gold was and they said up ahead there was some, but there wasn’t any. It was 1542 we marched and near the Junction of the Red, I was feeling ill, not myself then I hear a faint sound of “I think he died,” that was the end of my
On May 30,1935 we made it to Tampa Bay, Florida in the new world in hope for some big time riches like gold. We then marched northward to Georgia, than to the west Alabama River; which took me to Mobile bay and that is how I found the Mississippi River near the present site of Memphis, Tennessee in the spring of 1541. …show more content…
We forced the indians to tell us where the gold was hidden since they lived here and knew the land better than I did. That led to the biggest bloodiest fight ever, we fought at Mobile Bay where 70 spaniards were killed and me and my crew were hurt terribly but we lived. They thought that they had us big time but I tell you what, I still explored this land whether they liked it or not. We built boats, to forge the Mississippi river, we were the first ones to ever cross that river; came to Oklahoma, then turned eastward.
We reached the indians again and I asked where the gold was and they said up ahead there was some, but there wasn’t any. It was 1542 we marched and near the Junction of the Red, I was feeling ill, not myself then I hear a faint sound of “I think he died,” that was the end of my