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Spain declared war on England
Spain declared war on England, adding its support to the Revolutionary cause.
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Pope Alexander VI
Pope Alexander VI (1431–1503), who was elected pope in 1492, issued the Inter caetera, which divided lands in the New World between Spain and Portugal.
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Francisco Coronado
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (1510–1554) was a sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador who became the first European to explore what is now the southwestern United States. In 1540 Coronado set off on an expedition in search of legendary cities of gold. In July 1540, Coronado and his men reached the Zuni pueblo of Hawikuh. There the Spanish announced the requerimiento, which demanded Indian submission to Spanish dominion, sparking a clash between the two groups. Coronado went on to meet more peacefully with Zuni leaders and pressed...
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Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto (ca. 1496–1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador. De Soto first journeyed to the Western Hemisphere in 1514, though his more notable travels came later. In 1539, he arrived in present-day Florida and in 1540 set off on a journey to find gold and other “mineral wealth.” On his way west, in 1541, de Soto reached the Mississippi, making him the first European to “discover” and document the river. Throughout de Soto’s expedition, he and his men clashed with indigenous peoples. They also inadvertently spread infectious...
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Popé
Popé was a seventeenth-century Pueblo religious leader who led the Pueblo Revolt, the most successful American Indian uprising ever. In 1680, Popé led the Pueblo in attacking the Spanish. Though the revolt was successful in pushing the Spanish out of New Mexico, the region was reconquered again by Spain, soon after Popé’s death, in 1692.
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Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr (1756–1836) was an influential politican and the third vice president of the United States. Though he had a prominent career before his rivalry with Alexander Hamilton, Burr is best remembered for killing Hamilton in a duel in 1804. Burr was born in New Jersey and educated at Princeton (then the College of New Jersey). In 1775 he joined the Continental Army to fight in the Revolutionary War. After the war, Burr practiced law in New York City and in 1784 was elected to the state assembly. He continued his political career in the...
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Zebulon Pike
Zebulon Pike (1779–1813) was an American officer and explorer. Pike’s Peak in Colorado is named in his honor. He was sent to explore the southern portion of the Louisiana Purchase in 1806–1807, but he was captured by the Spanish and held briefly in 1807. He was killed in the War of 1812.
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Enrique Dupuy de Lôme
Enrique Dupuy de Lôme was the Spanish minister to the United States just prior to the Spanish-American War. In early 1898, Cuban insurgents leaked a letter from De Lôme in which the Spanish minister harshly criticized the character of President McKinley. De Lôme quickly resigned, but the letter, printed in the New York Journal, sparked anti-Spanish sentiment and contributed to the United States going to war with Spain.
