USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The first major incursion into present-day Florida was a complete fiasco. Of the 300 men who landed with Narvaez, only four ultimately survived.

Detailed explanation-2: -The expedition was initially led by Pánfilo de Narváez, who died in 1528. Many more people died as the expedition traveled west along the explored Gulf Coast of the present-day United States and into the American Southwest.

Detailed explanation-3: -Panfilo de Narvaez was a Spanish explorer and soldier who helped conquer Cuba in 1511 and led a Spanish royal expedition to North America in 1527. After surviving a hurricane near Cuba, his expedition landed on the west coast of Florida, near Tampa Bay, in April 1528, claiming the land for Spain.

Detailed explanation-4: -In February 1521, Ponce de León departed San Juan on his second expedition to Florida, accompanied by two ships and around 200 people-plus horses, tools, and seeds-to set up a farming colony. They landed on the southwest coast of Florida, near what is now Charlotte Harbor, with the intention of founding a colony.

Detailed explanation-5: -One of these “four ragged castaways, ” as history calls them, was Narváez’s second-in-command, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Cabeza de Vaca’s published account of his travels through Florida and Texas is the only surviving first-hand record of the expedition.