Cabeza de Vaca
Americannoun
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In Chapter 4’s examination of 16th-century Spanish exploration, for example, Gov. Juan Ponce de León of Puerto Rico appears in around 10 sentences, while chronicler Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca receives whole paragraphs.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2022
U.S. authorities had trouble getting on the phone with Tamaulipas Gov. Francisco Garcia Cabeza de Vaca.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
The shop advertised for sale the last trousers worn by Christopher Columbus, a hat belonging to 16th-century explorer Cabeza de Vaca and a silver breastplate owned by Hernán Cortes.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 16, 2016
By 2006, Mexico’s then attorney general Daniel Cabeza de Vaca said in a news conference she had become the chief financial operator for the cartel.
From Time ● Jul. 7, 2015
The walk of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, the first American traveller, was surpassed by the achievement of the poor and forgotten soldier Andrés Docampo.
From The Spanish Pioneers by Charles F. Lummis
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