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PANFILO DE NARVAEZ (c. 148o-1528)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 243 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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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