De Soto National Memorial

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The De Soto National Memorial, eight kilometers west of Bradenton, Florida, commemorates the landing of Hernando de Soto in 1539 and the first comprehensive study that has undertaken a Europeans in the south of the present-day United States.

De Soto Expedition

In May 1539 Hernando de Soto landed with an army of over 600 soldiers in the Tampa Bay area. Your new ships were loaded with 220 horses, a herd of pigs, dogs, guns, muskets, armor, tools and food. They led from the Spanish king Charles V command. You should sail to La Florida and "conquer, colonize and pacify " the country.

The expedition has not so much gold and valuables dropped, as the men had expected. Instead, they marched from one place to another, took food and enslaved the Indians to use them as guides and porters. This lasted four years, 6400 km long expedition died, hundreds of people. The de Soto expedition changed the look of the American southeast forever and forced the Spaniards their role in the New World to re-evaluate. Finally, were the reports on the Native American culture and the diversity of the landscape, who wrote the survivors from their own experience to a lasting legacy of the expedition.

Historical recognition

The National Memorial was approved on 11 March 1948, registered on 15 October 1966 in the National Register of Historic Places.

The task of the De Soto National Memorial is to get the controversial history of this investigation and to interpret their significance for American history. For visitors to scenes from the story will be added, they can try on a piece of armor or go into a replica of Florida's Nature Coast a route, as the conquistadors have gone 500 years ago.

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  • The National Parks: Index 2001-2003. Washington: United States Department of the Interior.
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