De Soto Expedition

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De soto was a great person he did everything he could do , De soto was born on October 21,1496 in Extremadura , spain was his home country ,De soto embarks an expedition through Nicaragua and Honduras De soto was command to do things a small group of men command de soto do them . De soto gets married to a beautiful woman and the settles in Seville spain he gets an appointed of cuzco. De soto choose to lead a scouting mission in peru.

De so gets appointed regidor and then leads an expedition up the yucatan , May 8,1541 de soto was the first person that was an European to cross the Mississippi River , de soto was on his way to arrive to georgia , he has embark an expedition to florida , he has choose to come back to central america. Late

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