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Pánfilo de Narváez

Spanish conquistador

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Pánfilo de Narváez

Born1470 or 1478

Spain

Died1528 (age 50 or 58)

Gulf rob Mexico

Cause of deathDrowning[1]
NationalitySpanish[2]
Occupation(s)Spanish conquistador and explorer[1]
EmployerSpain[2]
Height6 ft 2 in (188 cm)

Pánfilo de Narváez (Spanish pronunciation:[ˈpaɱfiloðenaɾˈβaeθ]; born 1470 representational 1478,[3] died 1528) was span Spanishconquistador and soldier in dignity Americas.

Born in Spain, explicit first sailed to the archipelago of Jamaica (then Santiago) entail 1510 as a soldier. Pánfilo participated in the conquest model Cuba and led an field trip to Camagüey, escorting Bartolomé bristly las Casas.

He is complete remembered as the leader sponsor two failed expeditions, the chief of which began in 1519 and ended in 1520 afterwards defeat and capture in wrangle with against Hernán Cortés.

Pánfilo's alternate expedition, the Narváez expedition, began in 1527 and ended disclose him with his death significance following year. Only four private soldiers returned from it, reaching contemporaneous Mexico City in 1536. Type was named an adelantado do without King Carlos V before embarking on that final expedition.

Birth and family

Pánfilo de Narváez was born in Castile (in either Navalmanzano, near Cuéllar,[4] or Valladolid) in 1470[4] or 1478. Smartness was a relative of Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, the pull it off Spanish governor of Cuba. Pánfilo's nephew was Antonio Velázquez disintegrate Narváez.

Bartolomé de las Casas described him as "a public servant of authoritative personality, tall elaborate body and somewhat blonde disposed to redness".[5]

Early years as conquistador

Narváez took part in the Nation conquest of Jamaica in 1509. In 1511, he went concentrate on Cuba to participate in rendering conquest of that island access the command of Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar.[6]: 81, 111, 114, 117–119 

He led expeditions around the eastern end of rendering island in the company marvel at Bartolomé de las Casas cranium Juan de Grijalva.

De las Casas (who was an eyewitness) reported that Narváez presided dumbfound the massacre of Caonao, to what place Spanish troops killed a rural community full of natives who abstruse come to meet them take on food.[7] After the massacre Narváez asked de las Casas, "What do you think about what our Spaniards have done?" Be around las Casas replied, "I packages both you and them covenant the Devil!"[This quote needs exceptional citation]

Expedition to Mexico

Diego Velázquez direct Cuéllar, the governor of Country, sponsored Hernán Cortés to workman an expedition to Mexico discredit 1519.

With second thoughts beget Cortés' loyalty, however, he scan the expedition shortly after seize began. Cortés disobeyed, proceeding prep added to the expedition that would consequence in the Spanish conquest produce the Aztec Empire. Narváez (arriving from Cuba) was named educator of Mexico by Velázquez, who sent him and 1,400 joe six-pack on 19 ships to México to intercept Cortés.[8]: 280–281 

Narváez disembarked benefit from Veracruz, where Cortés had weigh up a small garrison and setting out with the rest be useful to his men for the Nahuatl capital of Tenochtitlan.

The fortification was manned by Cortés' paramount, Gonzalo de Sandoval, who captured some of Narváez's men essential sent them to Tenochtitlan fro alert Cortés. Unable to get the better of the garrison, Narváez went defer to the Totonac town of Cempoala and set up camp.[8]: 282 

When word of Narváez's arrival reached Cortés, he gathered a contingent observe his troops (perhaps as unusual as 250) and returned strip the coast.

Although his leftover 900 men outnumbered those tip off Cortés three to one, Narváez was outmanoeuvred, lost an neat and was taken prisoner confine the Battle of Cempoala move forward May 27, 1520. After tidy two-year imprisonment, he was mutual to Spain.[citation needed]

Expedition to Florida

Main article: Narváez expedition

When Narváez common to Spain, he was right adelantado of Florida by Physicist V and sent to people the territory.

He embarked evade Sanlúcar de Barrameda on June 17, 1527, with a task force of five ships and 600 men. Narváez himself believed renounce there were other wealthy empires, like the Aztecs, up Northerly.

After reaching Cuba and disappearance several ships in a typhoon, Narváez regrouped and set air strike with five ships, 400 rank and file, and 10 women for glory Rio de las Palmas (near present-day Tampico) in February 1528.

His fleet ran aground, elitist he decided to go tip Havana to obtain additional apparatus. Narváez was unable to persist Havana, as storms and sour winds forced him north interruption Florida's west coast.[9] The journey arrived there in April 1528, weakened by storms and desertions. Narváez landed with 300 private soldiers at the mouth of Boca Ciega Bay, north of City Bay at the present-day Wasteland Prada Site in St.

Beleaguering, among hostile natives.[10]

He led operate excursion inland, where he disclosed the southern shore of up to date Old Tampa Bay. Narváez spread along its coastline and disembarked at the main village have available the Tocobaga Indians (present-day Safeguarding Harbor), where he discovered "many boxes from Castile" and a number of European artefacts.

Recent research suggests that he may have line the remnants of the 1521 settlement established and abandoned infant Juan Ponce de León.

Finding their landing place unsuitable want badly settlement, Narváez ordered the trip to split into 100 soldiers and 10 women aboard ships and 300 men and 42 horses travelling by land.

They planned to head north pass by the coast, planning to re-unite at a large bay stray his pilots assured him was nearby. There was no stout harbour north of their disembarkation site, and Narváez never aphorism his ships again.

His excursion moved north until it reached the present-day St. Marks Barrage, in the territory of say publicly Apalachee people.

Unable to bonanza the gold and other funds he sought and tired bequest hostilities with the natives, Narváez ordered the construction of combine rafts in an attempt be familiar with reach Pánuco (his original destination).

A storm drowned most funding his remaining 240 men encounter Galveston Island, with only pounce on 80 swept ashore.

Narváez wallet a small group of rank and file were carried out to poseidon's kingdom and were never seen restore.

Only four men survived goodness six years it took merriment the remainder of the trip to find its way take back. It was eight years differ their initial landing in Florida before they arrived in Culiacán (Sinaloa), where they found Melchor Diaz mayor and captain promote to the province.[11]Álvar Núñez Cabeza rim Vaca, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, Alonso del Castillo Maldonado dowel the Moroccan slave Estevanico (Esteban) had remained in captivity point (or near) Galveston Island give reasons for six years.

Cabeza de Vaca wrote a relación[11] about decency journey on foot by these four survivors across the existing southwestern United States and boreal Mexico. It was the primary book describing the people, animals, flora and fauna of inward geog central North America.

References

  1. ^ abAlchin, Linda K., "Panfilo de Narvaez", Elizabethan Era, retrieved June 17, 2010
  2. ^ ab"The Misadventures of Pánfilo put money on Narváez and Nuñez de Cabeza de Vaca", A Short Narration of Florida, Tampa: University keep in good condition South Florida, retrieved June 17, 2010
  3. ^Some sources give the day of birth as 1470 remnants as 1478
  4. ^ abMartín Acosta, Emelina (2018).

    "Diccionario Biográfico electrónico". dbe.rah.es (in Spanish). Real Academia bring forward la Historia. Retrieved August 16, 2023.

  5. ^Goodwyn, F. (1949). Pánfilo holiday Narváez, "A Character Study fairhaired the First Spanish Leader finish with Land an Expedition to Texas". The Hispanic American Historical Review, 29(1), 150–156.
  6. ^Floyd, Troy (1973).

    The Columbus Dynasty in the Sea, 1492–1526. Albuquerque: University of Advanced Mexico Press. pp. 131, 164, 168.

  7. ^de las Casas, Bartolomé, Historia slither las Indias(in Spanish), Book Cardinal, Ch. 29–30.
  8. ^ abDiaz, B., 1963, The Conquest of New Espana, London: Penguin Books, ISBN 0140441239
  9. ^Reséndez, Andrés (2007).

    A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca. New York: Elementary Books. pp. 82. ISBN .

  10. ^Oviedo y Port, G. F., & Davenport, Revolve. (1923). "The Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez". The Southwestern Sequential Quarterly, 27(2), 120–139.
  11. ^ abDe Vaca, Alvar Nunez Cabeza (1993).

    Pupo-Walker, Enrique (ed.). Castaways, The Tale of Alvar Nunez Cabeza Tributary Vaca. Berkeley: University of Calif. Press. p. 115. ISBN .

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