[DOC] [TLE] De Soto reaches the Mississippi - May 08, 1541 - HISTORY.com [PAR] On this day in History, De Soto reaches the Mississippi on May 08, 1541. ... de 
Soto reaches the Mississippi River, one of the first European explorers to ... 
Turning back to the Mississippi, de Soto died of a fever on its banks on May 21, 
1542. ... of his death, and thus disprove de Soto's claims of divinity, his men 
buried his... [DOC] [TLE] Hernando de Soto - Wikipedia [PAR] Hernando de Soto (c. 1495  May 21, 1542) was a Spanish explorer and 
conquistador who led ... De Soto died in 1542 on the banks of the Mississippi 
River in what is now ... Bringing his own men on ships which he hired, de Soto 
joined Francisco ..... On May 8, 1541, de Soto's troops reached the Mississippi 
River (Alonso... [DOC] [TLE] Hernando de Soto (1500?1542) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas [PAR] Sep 22, 2016 ... He and his soldiers were the first Europeans to set foot in what is now Arkansas. 
... In May 1539, de Soto set out from Cuba with about 600 men, plus ... the 
Mississippi River into what is now Arkansas on June 28, 1541 (June 18 ... Until 
the time of de Soto's death in 1542, the narratives mention the following... [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Ferdinand De Soto and the invasion of Florida" [PAR] Around him were his nobles and captains of companies, from whom he was .... 
Let him go to see the Inca Atahuallpa, for there may be no better way of getting 
rid of ..... He had already killed several men and had never, himself, been harmed
. ..... 41 FERDINAND DE SOTO Soon after the return of Pizarro from this voyage,
... [DOC] [TLE] Timeline Spain thru 1899 [PAR] 842 Mar 20, Alfonso II the Chaste, king of Asturia (791-842), died. ... He raided 
Christian Spain and hauled his booty back to Cordoba and built a palace ... 1085 
May 25, Alfonso VI, Spanish Christian ruler, took Toledo, Spain, from the 
Moslems. ...... His men buried his body in the Mississippi River in what is now 
Louisiana in... [DOC] [TLE] Native American Conquest - Spanish Conquest of Native America [PAR] Mississippi River, America's largest, full year-round. Fish ... swords and vicious 
dogs to America; he took women, food ... of 1539, at a port first discovered by 
Ponce de Leon, one of .... 8, 1541, at the end of their trail. ..... The Chroniclers 
frequently described him and ..... HALF MAY 21, DESOTO DIES, BURIED AFTER 
DARK. [DOC] [TLE] Das Illustrirte Mississippithal, or, The Valley of the Mississippi ... [PAR] Cairo, Illinois, and the Mouth of the Ohio River. .... Early in the summer of 1846 he 
embarked on his first voyage upstream, making a ... I have a first-rate and highly 
important proposition from him which may render our affair of much ...... Just what 
happened to most of Henry Lewis' possessions after his death is unknown, but... [DOC] [TLE] Sweet Freedom's Plains - National Park Service [PAR] May 1991), 6; Rudolph M. Lapp, Blacks in Gold Rush California (New Haven: 
Yale ..... He and his party endured many hardships, including a starvation winter 
on a ... Kansa Indians in 1541, the black interpreter stayed with him. 10 ...... The 
two men ferried across the Mississippi River at Memphis and made their way to 
the. [DOC] [TLE] The Project Gutenberg eBook, Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino ... [PAR] Dec. His ill-judged appearance at the siege of Mirandola 334 1511. May 21. ..... 
In vain these emissaries besought him for a reinforcement of two hundred men; 
...... circle of Urbino, with the Duchess at its head as goddess of the river Metauro. 
..... He died at Rome six years after, in his seventy-seventh year, and was buried 
in... [DOC] [TLE] he Averys of Groton, genealogical and ... - American Memory [PAR] bers to

Question: He first sighted the Mississippi in May 1541; fittingly, his men buried him in the river after he died May 21, 1542
Answer: Hernando de Soto