When was hernando de soto born

Hernando de Soto of Spain was among the greatest of the Spanish conquistadors. Cruel and ambitious, calculating and clever, he rose from the obscurity of grinding poverty to become one of the most renowned explorers in the world and has remained among the most recognized names down through the centuries.

He was at the vanguard of a new class of explorers that would come to be known as the conquistadors.

Hernando de soto accomplishments

De Soto was the first European man to cross to the western side of the Mississippi River – the shores of which would prove one day to be the site of this death.

Early Life

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Hernando de Soto was born in 1496 in a community of Spain called Extremurda, although it is unknown if the village of his birth was Badajoz or Barcarrota.

Whatever the case, this was a region where just about everyone was poor and of the peasant class. The only way out of poverty for most unconnected young men like de Soto was to win glory in military service or ship out to sea.

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