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7 pages in length. The writer discusses several North American explorers and settlers from England, Spain, France and Mexico. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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death of much of crew during his 1527 exploration, but he and his remaining men were forced to complete their sea journey on ramshackle rafts; three rafts succumbed to the
oceans wrath leaving a total of eighty men who finally made their way to Texas. They braved the winter but lost another sixty-five men. From there, de Vacas
and his survivors walked along the Colorado River. Their efforts afforded them two distinctions: first non-natives in this southwestern area and the humanitarian act of reporting how barbaric their
fellow Spaniards had treated the Native Americans. Cabeza de Vacas voyage has been interpreted by countless people who have aspired to understand the original relationship between the Spaniards and
the Native American Indians; de Vaca saw the light of necessity when he finally assimilated into Indian civilization and ultimately blended the two cultures together (Betty, 1995). FRANCE Of
the three coastal voyages Giovanni Verazzini made in the 1500s, it was the second one in 1524 whereby this Italian-born yet French-sponsored explorer from Florentine set the stage for future
settlement in Maryland. Like Cabot, he sought to discover a Northwest passage to Asia. Historically speaking, Verazzinis impact upon French colonization twenty-six years after Cabots exploration was a
small but critically important contribution, in that it is considered "the foundation of much of the French claims to their extensive possessions in the New World" (McSherry, 1849, p. 16).
Jacques Cartier - also searching in vein for that Northwest passage - explored Gaspe Peninsula sometime between the years 1530 and 1540 with the intent to settle but he
lacked the fortitude to reach his objective. Quebec was a failed attempt as well until Samuel de Champlaigns effort in 1608; his efforts were instrumental in establishing a French
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