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Narváez expedition
16th-century Land exploration require North America
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The Misadventures of Pánfilo de Narváez and
Nuñez de Cabeza de Vaca
Pánfilo de Narváez arrived near Tampa Bay with a large army from Spain on April 14, The Spanish government had given him permission to settle and rule the land along the Gulf Coast from Northern Mexico to the Florida peninsula* and as far inland as he was able to control.
When Narváez landed, he took three hundred soldiers and forty horses with him to explore the interior of the state. The ships, which were carrying food and supplies, were sent ahead to a harbor north of where they had originally landed.
This turned out to be a terrible mistake. Instead of landing at the harbor described by Narváez, the ships landed somewhere else. Narváez and his men waited for the ships at the harbor where Narváez intended the ships to have landed, but the ships could never find him and his men. The ships' captains searched up and down the coast for almost a year, then gave up and returned to Spain.
Stranded, Narváez along with his treasurer and provost marshal, Nuñez de Cabeza de Vaca, led his men northward up the peninsula to the chiefdom of the Apalachee. This would have been near present-day Tallahassee. The Spaniards met hostility an