USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In pursuit of a rumored fountain of youth located on an island known as Bimini, Ponce de León led an expedition to the coast of Florida in 1513. Thinking it was the island he sought, he sailed back to colonize the region in 1521, but was fatally wounded in a Native American attack soon after his arrival.

Detailed explanation-2: -No original documents survive from Ponce de Leon’s Florida expedition. There is one theory that Spanish historians, writing long after he died in 1521, may have created the story that he was seeking the fountain to make fun of him because he was an old man who wanted to restore his sexual vigor, Smith says.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ponce de León was supposedly searching for the Fountain of Youth when he traveled to Florida in 1513.

Detailed explanation-4: -For example, you may have learned, in some distant unrecoverable scrap of your childhood, that the 16th-century Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León was obsessed with the Fountain of Youth. This obsession led him to discover Florida, through whose impossible jungles he drove his men on suicide missions.