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	Panfilo De Narvaez - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The prospects of fabulous wealth which had sustained them in their difficult and perilous journey having proved illusory a return to the coast was determined, and the Bahia de los Caballos, at or near St Mark's, was reached in the following month.
		Having built rude boats, the much-reduced company sailed hence for Mexico on September 22, but the vessel which carried Narvaez was driven to sea in a storm and perished.
		His lieutenant, Cabeza de Vaca, with three others who ultimately reached land, made his way across Texas to the Gulf of California.
	92.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NA/NARVAEZ_PANFILO_DE.htm (201 words)

	Choctaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1528, Pánfilo de Narváez travelled through what was likely the Mobile Bay area, encountering American Indians who fled and burned their towns in response to the Spaniard’s approach.
		This response was a prelude to Hernando de Soto’s extensive journeys in 1540 to 1543.
		De Soto travelled up through Florida, and then down into the Alabama-Mississippi area that later was inhabited by the Choctaw.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Choctaw (3796 words)

	AllRefer.com - PAnfilo de NarvAez (Latin American History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		After service in Jamaica, he aided Diego de VelAzquez in conquering Cuba and was sent (1520) to Mexico by VelAzquez to force CortEs into submission.
		NarvAez's force was defeated, and he was captured and imprisoned.
		NarvAez sent his ships on toward Mexico and then led 300 men inland to Apalachee (near the present-day Tallahassee) in a futile search for gold.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/NarvaezP.html (264 words)

	Pánfilo de Narváez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pánfilo de Narváez (1470 – 1528) was a Spanish conqueror and soldier in the Americas.
		In 1512 he went to Cuba to participate in the conquest of that island under the command of Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar.
		His expedition to Florida was a notorious disaster culminating in the death of almost all its members, including Narváez, but notably sparing Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and three others.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/P%C3%A1nfilo_de_Narv%C3%A1ez (198 words)

	Panfilo de Narvaez
		Panfilo de Narvaez, who was sent to Mexico to supersede Cortez, had extraordinary adventures afterwards as a discoverer in Florida.
		The Indians fled from their wigwams or rude huts; and when all of his followers; with the horses, were on the shore, Narvaez raised the standard of Spain, and with the usual formula took possession of the country in the name of his monarch.
		Narvaez marched with high hopes from Tampa, to explore the country, directing his ships to sail along the coasts for the same purpose.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/Our_Country_Vol_1/panfilod_ca.html (1139 words)

	Cabeza
		Panfilo de Narvaéz was the lieutenant governor of Cuba and was the leader of this journey.
		Cabeza de Vaca was one of the eighty survivors.
		Cabeza de Vaca was a slave for the first year on the island, but escaped to a different tribe (the semi-nomadic Coahuiltecans) and became a trader of snails, hides, and shells.
	www.lakesideschool.org /studentweb/worldhistory/GlobalContactse/cabeza.htm (1238 words)

	History of Clearwater: The Beginnings Part 2 - presented by the Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization
		Panfilo de Narvaez landed on Good Friday, April 15, 1528, at Cacique Ucita, a Timucuan village, at the head of Clearwater Bay, according to some historians.
		Narvaez, recently splintered from his plundering with Cortez in Mexico, terrorized the indigenous residents while exploring for gold.
		De Soto and most of his men died near the Mississippi River, afflicted by fever and fatigued from their fruitless search.
	www.scientology-fso.org /en_US/cw-history/part01/pg001.html (366 words)

	Explorers - N - EnchantedLearning.com
		Panfilo de Narvaez (1470?-1528) was a Spanish explorer and soldier.
		De Narvaez was granted the land of Florida by the Emperor Charles V in 1526.
		De Niza reported that he and Estevanico saw the extraordinarily rich "Seven Golden Cities of Cibola," but they were later found to be simple Zuni Indian pueblos.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /explorers/indexn.shtml (717 words)

	Cabeza de Vaca's Travels Through Mid-North America 1528-1536
		Cabeça de Vaca was a native of Jerez.
		De Soto was a soldier, an accomplished military leader, and was not likely to give much credence to Cabeza de Vaca's concern for humaneness and fairness.
		Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca's adventures continued with the governorship of the Spanish colony in the Rio de la Plata region in South America.
	www.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/cabeza.htm (3385 words)

	National Park Service - Explorers and Settlers (Historical Background)
		Hernando de Soto and Luís de Moscoso, during the years 1539-43, explored extensively throughout the present Southeastern United States and obtained a wealth of information about the lands and peoples of the interior—beyond the Mississippi and as far west as Oklahoma and Texas.
		De Soto was perhaps the most determined and successful of all Spanish explorers.
		De Soto, however, sickened and died on May 21, 1542, and the men sank his body in the middle of the great river he had discovered so that the Indians would not find it and realize that he was mortal.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/explorers/intro3.htm (2118 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca
		Cabeza de Vaca was born into the Spanish nobility in 1490.
		As Cabeza de Vaca remembered, his countrymen were "dumbfounded at the sight of me, strangely dressed and in company with Indians.
		Appalled by the Spanish treatment of Indians, in 1537 Cabeza de Vaca returned to Spain to publish an account of his experiences and to urge a more generous policy upon the crown.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/a_c/cabezadevaca.htm (495 words)

	Cabeza de Vaca's Journey - Florida Trails (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Narvaez had been blown further north from Havana than he realized, however, and the captains of his vessels reported finding Ponce's harbor just five leagues south of his disembarkation point.
		Narvaez, with his small army and with no livestock to drive, explored the area then departed northeast, crossing the Myakka River bridge which DeSoto's people would use years later; Narvaez had landed less than three leagues from Charlotte Harbor's bay head at the bridge.
		Narvaez crossed these "lakes" instead of avoiding them because both the pool and the river's flats look like lakes and are almost impossible to hike around even today.
	www.floridahistory.com /vaca-1a.html (2048 words)

	FLORIDA OF THE CONQUISTADOR
		Ponce de Leon was pierced in the thigh by a reed arrow.
		Alonso Alvarez de Pineda, a survivor of an ill-fated landing in Calusa country in 1517, traveled the Florida shore to the Mississippi River, verifying Ponce de Leon's claim Florida was not an island.
		Narvaez was a veteran Caribbean soldier who had been hired by Spanish authorities in 1520 to overthrow Hernan Cortes' tyrannical rule.
	www.floridahistory.org /floridians/conquis.htm (2181 words)

	Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
		expedition to Florida led by Panfilo de Narvaez, in which 600 men perished in storms and shipwrecks, were pierced by the arrows of ferocious Indians, drowned while crossing rivers, died from hunger and cold, succumbed to illness or were even eaten by their starving fellow expeditionaries.
		Undoubtedly wealthy, he sponsored an expedition to Rio de la Plata in 1540 (his other book, Comentarios, deals with this voyage) and was awarded the governorship of this province by the king.
		The expedition led by Panfilo de Narvaez was ill-fated from the very start; the ships first ran aground in the Caribbean, and then a violent storm off Cuba wrecked them along the Florida coast.
	www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx /english/historia/personajes/detalle.cfm?idsec=5&idsub=0&idpag=402 (1122 words)

	National Park Service - Explorers and Settlers (De Soto National Memorial)
		In 1528, Pánfilo de Narváez and 400 colonists had landed at Tampa Bay and marched overland to the vicinity of Apalachicola Bay, where they built small boats and sailed westward in the gulf.
		De Soto's expedition is especially significant because—more than 60 years before the first permanent English settlement, at Jamestown—during the period 1539-43 it explored 4,000 miles of wilderness through out the present Southeastern United States.
		To commemorate the 400th anniversary of De Soto's landing, in 1939 the National Society of Colonial Dames of America erected the De Soto trail marker, located at Shaw's Point, which overlooks the mouth of the Manatee River.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/explorers/sitea10.htm (244 words)

	Aaccessmaps.com presents information about Tampa
		Panfilo de Narvaez and Hernando DeSoto came to what is known today as Tampa during the 16th Century in search of gold.
		After many battles Panfilo de Narvaez went no farther but Hernando DeSoto extensively explored the region and came into contact with the Seminole Indians who also resisted the Spanish intruders.
		Petersburg area was discovered and explored by Panfilo de Narvaez in 1528, 36 years after Columbus arrived in the Caribbean and 37 years before the founding of St. Augustine.
	www.aaccessmaps.com /show/info/tampa_bay_north (803 words)

	Tampa Bay History
		Panfilo de Narvaez, another Spanish explorer, landed at Tampa Bay in 1528 with 300 men.
		Like many Spanish tourists of the time, de Narvaez wasn't interested in the beauty of the area.
		With the help of Juan Ortiz, a de Narvaez survivor who had acquired a passable command of the local languages, the de Soto expedition trekked as far as the Mississippi River.
	www.ego.net /us/fl/tampa/history/index.htm (544 words)

	Biographies
		In late October 1539, Juan de Añasco with thirty horsemen arrived from Apalaache, with orders to leave the base camp and rejoin the main armwhile Calderón and his cavalry accompanied by some crossbowmen journeyed by land arriving with the loss of two men and several horses.
		On 17 June 1527, Governor Pánfilo de Narváez left the port of San Lúcar de Barrameda authorized and commanded by Your Majesty to conquer and govern the provinces of which should be encountered from the river of the river of Palms [the Rio Grande] to the cape of Florida.
		Although I suspect that Rafael de Soto could equally well be a lineal or collateral descendent, I certainly can’t find any information in the mid-sixteenth century records or practice that would preclude his claim of being a direct descendent of the Adelantado.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /calderon/bios.html (3080 words)

	Floripedia: De Narvaez, Panfilo
		De Narvaez decided that he would march with the greater number of his men along the coast until he should reach the large bay Miruelo had discovered, and there the ships with one hundred men on board were to meet him.
		First a kind of irregular war was made upon the invaders; then the Indians tried the more successful plan of saying that their land was poor and not worth having, but that nine days' journey to the sea was a town called Aute, where plenty of provisions could be gotten.
		De Narvaez was now sick at heart, and longed to escape from a land where he had met with such great misfortunes.
	fcit.usf.edu /florida/docs/d/denarvaez.htm (1079 words)

	Exploring the Mississippi –
		In 1527 Panfilo de Narváez, a wealthy Spaniard living in Cuba who attempted to take possession of Florida and any other land he could find, made an expedition past the Mississippi's mouth, where a storm wrecked his fleet.
		Hernando de Soto, Spanish Governor of Cuba and a veteran of the conquest of Peru, was intrigued by Cabeza de Vaca's description of the coastline.
		De Soto is believed to be the first European to find and cross the Mississippi River.
	www.iadb.org /EXR/cultural/catalogues/orleans/expl_mississippi.html (472 words)

	Pinellas County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Narvaez was ruthless, and let nobody stand in his way while searching for gold.
		Narvaez's 300 men were faced by angry Indians, starvation for lack of supplies, and wandering around in a land they knew nothing about.
		Cabeza de Vaca survived and wrote an account of his trials and tribulations.
	www.tfn.net /SEMINOLEWAR/Counties/c5pine.htm (856 words)

	Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca was the European to cross North America in the early 1500's
		Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca was the European to cross North America in the early 1500's
		Cabeza de Vaca was second in command in the ill fated expedition of Panfilo de Narvaez, charged with exploring Florida and claiming its territory for Spain.
		When Narvaez lost his ships and his men, and then disappeared himself, Cabeza de Vaca took charge of the handful of survivors, whose ranks would be whittled down to almost nothing by Indian attacks, starvation, disease and accidents, until only the four men who eventually made their way to Ojinaga were left.
	www.ojinaga.com /cabeza/index.html (179 words)

	Velazquez, Diego de. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Landing at Baracoa, where he established the seat of government, by 1514 he had completed occupation of the island with the aid of his friend and chief lieutenant, Pánfilo de Narváez.
		He was connected with the expedition of Fernández de Córdoba to Yucatán (1517) and in 1518 sent out an expedition under Juan de Grijalva, who explored the Mexican coast.
		Distrusting Cortés, Velázquez in 1520 sent Pánfilo de Narváez to compel his return to Cuba, but Narváez was defeated and the remainder of his forces joined Cortés.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ve/VelzquzD.html (284 words)

	Panfilo de Narvaez Biography / Biography of Panfilo de Narvaez Main Biography
		In 1509 he accompanied Juan de Esquirel in the conquest of Jamaica.
		The tall, red-bearded Narváez, with a resonant voice "as if it came from a cave," emerged from the conquest with a reputation of being "brave against Indians." But as a commander of expeditions, he was both blundering and unlucky.
		Led by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, they began their epic 8-year journey across the southwestern United States, southward into Mexico, reaching Mexico City in 1536.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-panfilo-de-narvaez (621 words)

	Texas Tides -- Tides in Early Texas History
		Spanish explorers first came into contact with Native Americans in the region known as Texas in 1528 when Cabaza de Vaca and his companions were taken captive by the Tonkawa Indians who were living on Texas' coast.
		Some Native populations were friendly to the early explorers, however, friendly or hostile all Native peoples suffered disastrous effects from illnesses the European explorers brought into their lands.
		Estevancio was traveling with Cabeza de Vaca and other survivors of the Narváez expedition.
	tides.sfasu.edu /15/index.php?culture=0&chrono=2&index=1 (304 words)

	Archaeology - Office of Cultural & Historical Programs
		Although expeditions into the unknown peninsula, led by Ponce de León (1513, 1521), Pánfilo de Narváez (1528), and Hernando de Soto (1539), failed to realize mythical riches of the region, the Spanish were determined to conquer and to pacify the northern frontier of New Spain.
		Pensacola was chosen by New Spain Viceroy Luis de Velasco as the place to begin the conquest and colonization of Florida in 1559.
		Command of the enterprise was given to Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano, who had first come to Mexico in company with its famous conqueror, Hernán Cortes, and had served as maestre de campo for Francisco Vásquez de Coronado on the march for Cibola.
	dhr.dos.state.fl.us /archaeology/projects/shipwrecks/emanuelpoint/history.cfm (928 words)

	Cuba tries to Stop Cortez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The first expedition that was sent after Cortez and his men was headed by a man named Panfilo de Narvaez in April of 1520 A.D. Cortez discovered their Plot however, and assaulted Panfilo de Narvaez and his men during the night, defeating them and adding men to his force.
		Then in June of the same year Cuba sent additional aid to Panfilo de Narvaez, not knowing he was defeated, under the guidance of Hernando de Medel.
		Hernando de Medel was then followed by Pedro Barba, who landed in Veracruz, and who's mission also was to aid the defeated Panfilo de Narvaez.
	daphne.palomar.edu /marguello_students/Fall_2003/006197144/cuba_tries_to_stop_cortez.htm (220 words)

	TeachersFirst - The Web Resource for K-12 Teachers
		The first European to explore Alabama was Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda of Spain, who explored the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Mexico in 1519, including the area we now call Mobile Bay.
		The Spaniard Panfilo de Narvaez attempted to start a colony in 1528 along the Florida Gulf Coast, but was unsuccessful.
		Another Spaniard, Don Tristan de Luna failed to establish a permanent Spanish colony on the Alabama Florida coast between 1559 and 1561.
	www.teachersfirst.com /share/states/detail-history.cfm?state=al (671 words)

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