Hernando de Soto | |
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![]() Hernando de Soto
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Born | October 27, 1496 or 1498 or 1500 [1]:135 in Jerez de los Caballeros, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain |
Dee'd | Bank o Mississippi River, Present day Ferriday, Louisiana [2][3] | 21 Mey 1542 (aged 45)
Naitionality | Spainyie |
Thrift | explorer an conquistador |
Releegion | Roman Catholicism |
Hauf-marrae(s) | Isabel De Rupodio |
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Hernando de Soto (October 21, 1496[4]– Mey 21, 1542) wis a Spaingie explorer an conquistador who led the first European expedeetion deep intae the territory o the modren-day Unitit States (Florida, Georgie, Alabama an maist likely Arkansas), an the first documentot European tae hae crossed the Mississippi River.[5]