John S. C. Abbott
Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi
American Pioneers and Patriots
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4057664581792
Table of Contents
NEW YORK: DODD & MEAD, No. 762 BROADWAY. 1873.
The Execution of the Inca, and Embarrassments of De Soto.
The Conspiracy and its Consequences.
The Dreadful Battle of Mobila.
The Discovery of the Mississippi.
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Dodd & Mead ,
NEW YORK:
DODD & MEAD, No. 762 BROADWAY.
1873.
PREFACE.
Mr. Theodore Irving, in his valuable history of the "Conquest of Florida," speaking of the astonishing achievements of the Spanish Cavaliers, in the dawn of the sixteenth century says:
"Of all the enterprises undertaken in this spirit of daring adventure, none has surpassed, for hardihood and variety of incident, that of the renowned Hernando de Soto, and his band of cavaliers. It was poetry put in action. It was the knight-errantry of the old world carried into the depths of the American wilderness. Indeed the personal adventures, the feats of individual prowess, the picturesque description of steel-clad cavaliers, with lance and helm and prancing steed, glittering through the wildernesses of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and the prairies of the Far West, would seem to us mere fictions of romance, did they not come to us recorded in matter of fact narratives of contemporaries, and corroborated by minute and daily memoranda of eye-witnesses."
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