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May 5, 2023 · Life and letters of Vasco Núñez de Balboa, including the conquest and settlement of Darien and Panama, the odyssey of the discovery of the South sea, a description of the splendid armada to Castilla del Oro, and the execution of the adelantado at Acla; a history of the first years of the introduction of Christian civilization on the ...
Dec 18, 2009 · The 16th-century Spanish conquistador and explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa helped establish the first stable settlement on the South American continent at Darién, on the coast of the Isthmus of...
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Sep 19, 2024 · Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Spanish conquistador and explorer, who was head of the first stable settlement on the South American continent (1511) and who was the first European to sight the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean (on September 25 [or 27], 1513, from ‘a peak in Darien’ on the Isthmus of Panama.
Dec 31, 2010 · This man was Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, who enlisted under Bastidas at Seville, and accompanied him throughout the voyage, with its consequent disasters. He was then an obscure individual, known only as a dependant of Don Pedro Puertocarrero, the mighty lord of Moguer.
Jan 18, 2020 · Tells the story of the Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa, beginning in 1510 when he snuck on board a ship bound for Central America, through his discovery, for Spain, of the South Sea, now known as the Pacific Ocean. Includes bibliographical references (p. 62) and index.
(1475–1519). Spanish explorer and conquistador, or conqueror, Vasco Núñez de Balboa was the first European to look upon the Pacific Ocean from the shores of the New World. He led a colony in what is now Panama that was the first successful European settlement on the mainland of the Americas.
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His muskets blasted away the faces of the greatest warriors. Balboa's soldiers spread smallpox and syphilis. His Spanish war dogs, great mastiffs and wolfhounds, tore children limb from limb. The blood from his great war machine made the rivers flow red and his name, Balboa, moved quickly, apace.
