Juan pardo explorer birth and death
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Juan Pardo was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who was active in the later half of the sixteenth century. He led a Spanish expedition through what is now North and South Carolina and into eastern stat i usa. He established Fort San Felipe, South Carolina (), and the village of Santa Elena on present-day Parris Island, the first Spanish settlements in South Carolina. While leading an expedition deeper in-country, Pardo founded Fort San Juan at Joara, the first Spanish settlement (–) in the interior of North Carolina.
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Pardo led two expeditions from Santa Elena into the interior of the present-day southeastern United States. The first, from December 1, to March 7, , numbered men and was to seek food and to establish bases among the region's indigenous people. He established Fort San Juan at Joara, a Mississippian culture center (near present-day Morganton, North Carolina) and left a garrison behind. Claiming the settlement for Spain, he renamed it Cuenca
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HISTORY: Explorer Juan Pardo
S.C. Encyclopedia | Juan Pardo was born in Cuenca, Spain, in the first half of the sixteenth century. He traveled to Spanish Florida in the fleet of General Sancho de Archiniega in as the captain of one of the six military companies sent to reinforce the colony founded by Governor Pedro Menéndez de Avilés in Captain Pardo’s company was the only one from the Archiniega expedition posted to the Spanish town of Santa Elena, which was located on present-day Parris Island, South Carolina.
Pardo never reached the mines of Mexico, but his two expeditions—the last major Spanish military explorations of the interior of the Southeast—provide a valuable window to the peoples of these lands in the mid–sixteenth century. Pardo first departed from Santa Elena on December 1, , with men and headed northwest through the interior of South Carolina and into western North Carolina. He returned to Santa Elena on March 7, , after receiving a summons to respo