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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 6 | 6 | Browse | Search |
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Americus Vespucius , 1451 -1512 (search)
Americus Vespucius, 1451-1512
Navigator; born in Florence, March 9, 1451.
When Columbus was in Seville preparing for his second voyage, Vespucius was there as a commercial agent of the Medici family of Florence, and he became personally acquainted with the discoverer.
That acquaintance
Americus Vespucius. inspired the Florentine with an ardent desire to make a voyage to the newly found continent, and he was gratified when, in 1499, he sailed from Spain with Alonzo de Ojeda as an adventurer and self-constituted geographer of the expedition.
Ojeda followed the track of Columbus in his third voyage, and discovered mountains in South America when off the coast of Surinam.
He ran up the coast to the mouth of the Orinoco River (where Columbus had discovered the continent the year before), passed along the coast of Venezuela, crossed the Caribbean Sea to Santo Domingo, kidnapped some natives of the Antilles.
and returned to Spain in June, 1500, and sold his victims for slaves to S
Florida,
The twenty-seventh State admitted into the Union; received its name from its discoverer in 1512 (see Ponce De Leon). It was visited by Vasquez, another Spaniard, in 1520.
It is believed by some that Verrazani saw its coasts in 1524; and the same year a Spaniard named De Geray visited it. Its conquest was undertaken by Narvaez, in 1528, and by De Soto in 1539. Panfilo Narvaez; Cabeza De Vaca (q. v.), with several hundred young men from rich and noble families of Spain landed at Tampa Bay,
State seal of Florida. April 14, 1528, taking possession of the country for the King of Spain.
In August they had reached St. Mark's at Appopodree Bay, but the ships they expected had not yet arrived.
They made boats by September 2, on which they embarked and sailed along shore to the Mississippi.
All the company excepting Cabeza de Vaca and three others perished.
In 1549, Louis Cancella endeavored to establish a mission in Florida but was driven away by the Indians, who killed most
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fountain of youth, (search)
Fountain of youth,
A fabled fountain, the discovery of which was one of the objects of the exploration of Florida, in 1512 by Ponce De Leon (q. v.). The water of this fountain was supposed to constitute an elixir, the drinking of which would greatly prolong human life.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), States, origin of the names of (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)