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Pánfilo de Narváez (
1470 –
1528) was a
Spanish conqueror and soldier in the
Americas. He was born in Vallenda, Spain. He is most remembered as the leader of two expeditions, one to Mexico in 1520 to oppose
Hernándo Cortés, and another, disastrous, to Florida in 1527.
Narváez was a young duke much like his father, born in
Castile (in either
Cuéllar or
Valladolid) in
1470. Narvaez took part in the conquest of
Jamaica in
1509. In
1512 he went to
Cuba to participate in the conquest of that island under the command of
Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar. He led expeditions to the eastern end of that island in the company of
Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas and
Juan de Grijalva.
Expedition to Mexico
After living on
Hispaniola and Cuba, Narváez was sent to
Mexico as Velázquez's agent to undermine Cortés's ambitions there.
Narváez disembarked in Veracruz with at least 800 Spanish men, 50 horses and some artillery. There they supervened a period of struggles in which they faced indigenous attacks, which caused several victims among Narváez's troops; and later, the forces of
Hernán Cortés.
Many of the men who were accompanying Narváez joined Cortés's side and finally Narváez was defeated, in Zempoala, Veracruz on May 24, 1520, despite of his numerical superiority. Narváez, who lost an eye during the battle, was made prisoner and led to Port of Veracruz where he was imprisoned for nearly three years.
Expedition to Florida
Narváez was subsequently appointed
adelantado (governor) of
Florida by
Charles V. He sailed from
Sanlúcar de Barrameda on
June 17,
1527 with a fleet of five ships and 700 men. The
expedition arrived on the coast of Florida in April
1528, weakened by storms and desertions. He landed with 300 men near the Rio de las Palmas—thought to be somewhere near Tampa Bay—among hostile natives.
From there, his expedition marched northward through interior Florida until it reached the territory of the powerful
Apalachee Indians. Unable to find the gold and other riches he sought and tired of the hostilities with the Indians, Narváez ordered the construction of four rafts to return to the sea from the interior. He intended to rejoin the ships and continue to Mexico, but the vessels were destroyed in a storm. Narváez and almost all the members of his expedition died. The storm wrecked two of the four rafts. The eighty men who survived the storm began an overland trek for Mexico. Starvation claimed most of their lives. Only four men survived the trek —
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca,
Alonso del Castillo Maldonado,
Andrés Dorantes de Carranza and one Berber slave named
Estevanico (Esteban). Estavanico was arguably the first person born in Africa to set foot in what is today the
United States.
Cabeza de Vaca wrote a narration entitled
Naufragios (
Shipwrecks), in which he described the journey made by
these four survivors on foot across the southeastern United States. This trek took eight years before they arrived in
Culiacán (
Sinaloa), where they found a Spanish settlement.
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