Juan Ponce de León was a Spanish explorer and conquistador known for leading the first official European expedition to Puerto Rico in 1508 and Florida in 1513. He was born in Santervás de Campos, Valladolid, Spain, in 1474. Though little is known about his family, he was of noble birth and served in the Spanish military from a young age. He first came to the Americas as a "gentleman volunteer" with Christopher Columbus's second expedition in 1493.
JuanPoncedeLeón (1474–1521) was an early Spanish explorer who is credited as being the first European to land in North America, and was the first colonial
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First attested in 1646. The city is named after Spanish administrator JuanPoncedeLeón y Loayza. IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈponθe/ [ˈpõn̟.θe] IPA(key): (Latin America
Floridian county is named for the Spanish explorer JuanPoncedeLeon. The Texan county is named for Martin deLeon, founder of Victoria, Texas. The town in Monroe
volume 3, page 134: Yes, these yonder are the vessels, / Which Don JuanPoncedeLeon / Hath with gear and crews outfitted / For the seeking of the island
understood the appeal. Chapter 16 (p. 305; spoken by the character JuanPoncedeLeón) “This is the worst excess of conjecture and wishful thinking,” snapped
Mexico was ruled by General Don Diego de Vargas Zapatoz Lujan PoncedeLeon, who signs himself, Marquez de la naba de Brazinas, gobernado, capitan, restorador
[309 x 177 cm], and I trust it will turn out as I want. in a letter from Juan Ceán Bermúdez, 1817, to a collector friend; as quoted by Robert Hughes, in:
