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Discoverers Web: Coronado - English
URL: http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/coronado.html

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Coronado was governor of New Galicia (contemporary Sinaloa and Nayarit, Mexico). As such he had already sent out Fray Marcos de Niza on a voyage to the north, to New Mexico. When Marcos returned he told about a wealthy, golden city, called Cibola. Of course this raised Coronado's interest, and he decided to try to get that gold. He set out in 1540, joined by a large expedition of 340 Spanish, 300 Indian allies, and 1000 slaves, both native Americans and Africans.

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PBS - THE WEST - Francisco Vázquez de Coronado - English
URL: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/coronado.htm

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Coronado was born into a noble family in Salamanca, Spain, in 1510. He came to the Americas at the age of twenty-five as an assistant to New Spain's first viceroy.

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Muster Roll of the Coronado Expedition of 1540 - English
URL: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nmbernal/musterc.htm

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Handbook of Texas Online: CORONADO EXPEDITION - English
URL: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/upcpt.html

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To verify Cabeza de Vaca's statements, Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza sent Marcos de Nizaqv to the north in the spring of 1539. After Niza's confirmation of the report, Mendoza, on January 6, 1540, appointed Francisco Vázquez de Coronadoqv to lead an expedition to conquer the area. That expedition, gathered at Compostela for Mendoza's review in February 1540, included 1,000 men, 1,500 horses and mules, and cattle and sheep for the expedition commissary.

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Discoverers Web: Coronado - English
URL: http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/coronado.html

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Coronado was governor of New Galicia (contemporary Sinaloa and Nayarit, Mexico). As such he had already sent out Fray Marcos de Niza on a voyage to the north, to New Mexico. When Marcos returned he told about a wealthy, golden city, called Cibola. Of course this raised Coronado's interest, and he decided to try to get that gold. He set out in 1540, joined by a large expedition of 340 Spanish, 300 Indian allies, and 1000 slaves, both native Americans and Africans.

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Coronado National Memorial (National Park Service) - English
URL: http://www.nps.gov/coro/

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Coronado National Memorial commemorates the first major European exploration of the American Southwest. The Memorial lies on the United States-Mexico border within sight of the San Pedro River Valley, through which the Coronado Expedition first entered the present U.S. in search of the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola. It is a cultural area situated in a natural setting comprised of 4,750 acres of grasslands and oak woodlands.

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Coronado's Exploration - English
URL: http://www.psi.edu/coronado/

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This site describes the first European exploration of the modern American Southwest by the Coronado expedition and associated parties in the 1530s and 1540s. The route for the expedition was reconnoitered in 1539 by Father Marcos de Niza, who first recorded the seven cities of Cíbola (now known to be the modern pueblo of Zuni, New Mexico. In 1540 Coronado led a huge expedition of around 1000 Spanish and native allies from Compostela, Mexico, north through Sonora and southeast Arizona, to Zuni. Side parties discovered the Grand Canyon, the Colorado river crossing near Yuma, and the Hopi pueblos or northern Arizona.

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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado: Explorer and Conquistador - EnchantedLearning.com - English
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/c/coronado.shtml

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Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (1510-1554) was a Spanish ruler, explorer and conquistador. He was the first European to explore North America's Southwest.

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Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de - English
URL: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0813622.html

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Spanish explorer. He went to Mexico with Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza and in 1538 was made governor of Nueva Galicia. The viceroy, dazzled by the report of Fray Marcos de Niza of the great wealth of the Seven Cities of Cibola to the north, organized an elaborate expedition to explore by sea.

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Êîðîíàäî Ôðàíñèñêî Âàñêåñ äå - Russian
URL: http://encycl.yandex.ru/cgi-bin/art.pl?art=bse/00037/69100.htm&encpage=bse

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Çàìåòêà èç Áîëüøîé ñîâåòñêîé ýíöèêëîïåäèè.

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Coronado Expedition 1540-42 - English
URL: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/national_parks/coronado_expedition.jpg

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Color map showing Coronado's route.

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The Journey of Coronado - English
URL: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/one/corona1.htm

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Account of the expedition to Cibola in 1540.

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