# Hernando de Soto

> He crossed the Mississippi River before anyone in Europe knew it was there - then died on its banks hunting for gold that didn't exist and a passage to China that couldn't.

*Spanish explorer and conquistador*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Historical Figure ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645))
- **Category:** Historical Figures
- **Country:** Spain
- **Born:** 1500
- **Died:** 1542-05-21
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

De Soto cut his teeth in Nicaragua and the Yucatan, then helped Francisco Pizarro tear through the Inca Empire in Peru. By 1539 he was ready for his own prize: he led the first European expedition deep into what would become the American Southeast, dragging his men through Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, the Carolinas, Mississippi, and likely Arkansas. They were chasing reports of gold from coastal explorers and Native tribes, and searching for a route to the Pacific or China. What they found was swamp, forest, and the Mississippi River - which de Soto became the first European on record to cross. On 21 May 1542, he died on its banks, somewhere near present-day Lake Village, Arkansas, or Ferriday, Louisiana. The expedition staggered on without him, leaving behind only contested chronicles shaped by the scribes and translators who claimed his story for their empires.

## Fame
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