It was the year 1500 when Hernando De Soto
was born in Spain. It was 1415 when he set sail for his first expedition to the
New World. He knew he would miss Isabel but at least he could marry her once he
got back. He made several expeditions to find gold. The Spanish liked
gold.
He helped conquer Nicaragua and
Honduras. The Spanish easily won because they used guns, cannons, armor, good
swords, horses and blood hounds and the Indians only used swords and bows and
arrows.
In 1519, he went back to Spain to ask
Isabel’s father’s permission to marry Isabel, but he hated him so much that he
challenged him to a duel. Once the duel began, De Soto struck the blade out of
the dads hand and surprisingly spared his life.
In November 15, 1532, he set out to
conquer the Incas, who had much gold. Once he arrived, he met the ruler and he
seemed friendly. However on the next day, the ruler was invited to dinner and
was captured. De Soto would only let him go if he gave him gold. Now that he
was rich, he asked Isabel to be his wife and she said ,”Yes.”
Later in 1519, he discovered the
Mississippi river. A year later, he sent camp on the river and Indians burned
down the camp including De Soto.
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