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Book chapter
An Account of the Battle of Mabila, by an Eyewitness, Luys Hernández de Biedma
The Search for Mabila : The Decisive Battle Between Hernando De Soto and Chief Tascalusa, pp.13-16
University of Alabama Press
he Search for Mabila : A Three-Day Multidisciplinary Workshop (University of Alabama, 09/28/2006–09/30/2006)
2009
Abstract
One of the most profound events in sixteenth-century North America was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a feared chieftain named Tascalusa. The site of this battle was a small fortified border town within an Indian province known as Mabila. Although the Indians were defeated, the battle was a decisive blow to Spanish plans for the conquest and settlement of what is now the southeastern United States. For in that battle, De Soto's army lost its baggage, including all proofs of the richness of the landp.
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- Title
- An Account of the Battle of Mabila, by an Eyewitness, Luys Hernández de Biedma
- Publication Details
- The Search for Mabila : The Decisive Battle Between Hernando De Soto and Chief Tascalusa, pp.13-16
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Conference
- he Search for Mabila : A Three-Day Multidisciplinary Workshop (University of Alabama, 09/28/2006–09/30/2006)
- Publisher
- University of Alabama Press; Tuscaloosa
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2009 The University of Alabama Press
- Identifiers
- 99380171961606600
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology; College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities
- Language
- English