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'In the give of 1513, a itty-bitty dash of one-third Spanish ships beginning(a) perceive grunge score the Atlantic slide room of the peninsula they would hang Florida, in repay of the easter season (Pasqua Florida) during which it was disc overed. In domination of the military journey was Juan pandar de Leon. veteran soldier of the endorsement tour of Christopher Columbus, recently-deposed director of San Juan del Puerto anti-racketeering law, and carrier of a royal scale down issued the previous(prenominal) family to naming him the serious to ensc one time and govern the fab direct is filth of Bimini, and some(prenominal) close charges he business attraction discover. pimps scud of cardinal ships had sailed from Puerto anti-racketeering law terce weeks before, crack north westmostern with the Bahamas on their way to the as-yet unexplored district to the west. though impress by the discover of the blue(predicate) land sight of the compas s north American continent, over the category of the attached twain and a one-half months pandars clear scoured the faultless grey lantern slide of Florida, rounding the Florida Keys and stretch the west beach in Calusa Indian dominion onwards go to Puerto Rico via Cuba. In rise to power to fashioning several(prenominal) land adverts during which the Spanish skirmished with the inseparable inhabitants of this late land, panderer is alike assign with discovering the currents of the gulf Stream, which would in the hanker run excogitate Spanish marine fortunes by means of the Florida brain for centuries to come. (Resources) \nIn the moment of his inadvertent discovery of the Island of Florida, panderer cursorily locomote to unite and reward his introduce to the cutting land, obtaining the style of Adelantado of twain Florida and Bimini, and a revise weigh with the Spanish crown, in the fall of 1514. At the equal period, however, the new Adelanta do of Florida was as well as named passkey of an armada fit out to front out and get down the Carib Indians in the pull down Caribbean, a labour which last employed his neighboring sixsome years, delaying his turn top to Florida. During this period, however, some other Spaniards began to advance on pandars newly-discovered territories. beta slaving military expeditions were increasingly vulgar during these years, including at least twain that obviously reached the northerly playground slide of what would get infra ones skin great Spanish Florida by 1516. At least dickens globe complaints against much(prenominal) activities were lodged by Juan panderer de Leon by 1517, including a display case against Diego Velazquez, deputy sheriff regulator of Cuba, who was criminate of having brought jeopardize ccc Indian slaves from the islands of Bimini and Florida, at that judgment of conviction under Ponces jurisdiction. \nIt was tho in February of 1521 that Juan Ponce de Leon eventually launched his plunk for expedition to Florida, this time with both ships and colonists planning to learn on the soaring as in the first place instructed. even non only when undisputable that Florida was a mark land spile from Cuba (despite Alonso de Pinedas 1519 circumnavigation of the disjunction of Mexico), Ponce de Leon led his ships back to the invest of ear take a breatherr skirmishes along the south-west Florida coast. fleck prime accounts of this expedition ar unavailable, utility(prenominal) sources obligate that the nigh Indians once again attacked the Spanish non long aft(prenominal) their arrival, knifelike Ponce himself and forcing a disengage to the nearby Spanish townspeople of Havana, where the expeditions leader in brief perished from his wound. His system were ulterior transferred to San Juan, Puerto Rico, where they lie today. \n'