PANFILO DE See also:NARVAEZ (c. 148o-1528)
, See also:Spanish adventurer, was an See also:hidalgo of See also:Castile, See also:born at See also:Valladolid about 1480
.
He was one of the subordinates of See also:Velazquez in the reduction of See also:Cuba, and, after having held various posts under his See also:governor-See also:ship, was put at the See also:head of the force sent to the Aztec See also:coast to compel See also:Cortes to renounce his command; he was surprised and defeated, however, by his abler and more active compatriot at Cempoalla, and made prisoner with the loss of an See also:eye (1520)
.
After his return to See also:Spain he obtained from See also:Charles V. a See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of See also:Florida as far as the See also:River of Palms; sailing in 1527 with five See also:ships and a force of about 600 men, he landed, probably near See also:Pensacola See also:Bay, in See also:April 1528, and, striking inland with some 300 of his followers, reached " Apalache " on See also:June 25
.
The prospects of fabulous See also:wealth which had sustained them in their difficult and perilous See also:journey having proved illusory a return to the coast was determined, and the See also:Bahia de los Caballos, at or near St See also:Mark's, was reached in the following See also:month
.
Having built See also:rude boats, the much-reduced See also:company sailed hence for See also:Mexico on See also:September 22, but the See also:vessel which carried See also:Narvaez was driven to See also:sea in a See also:storm and perished
.
His See also:lieutenant, Cabeza de Vaca, with three others who ultimately reached See also:land, made his way across See also:Texas to the Gulf of See also:California
.
(See FLORIDA.)
See See also:Prescott, See also:Conquest of Mexico; H
.
H
.
See also:Bancroft, Mexico (1882—189o) ; and the Naufragio of Alvaro See also:Nunez Cabeza de Vaca in the Biblioteca of Rivadeneyra, xxii
.
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