Ponce de Leon and the Early Exploration of Florida Juan Ponce de Leon was born in 1460, in Tierra de Campos Paleia, in Leon, Spain (Ponce, 1996). He came from a noble family and entered the royal household as a page for Pedro Nunez de Guzman, at the Court of Aragon. Later, young Ponce de Leon would become a solider for Spain and fight in the battles to drive the Moors from Granada (Blassingame, 1991). In 1493, Leon sailed …
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…replaced him with Angel de Villafane (1991). References Blassingame, W (1991). Ponce de Leon. Philadelphia: Chelsea Juniors. Coler, W.S., & Shofner, J.H. (1991). Florida: From the Beginning to 1992. Houston: Pioneer Publications, Inc. Ponce de Leon (1993). Microsoft (R) Encarta, Copyright Microsoft Corporation. Copyright 1993 Funk & Wagnall's Corporation. Ponce de Leon (1994). Compton's NewMedia Inc. Compton's learning Company. Ponce de Leon (1996). Prodigy (R) interactive personal service. Excerpted from Compton's Encyclopedia. Thompson, J (1990, November). Ponce de Leon. Stamps, pp 245-246. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**