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The Search for Mabila: The Decisive Battle between Hernando de Soto and Chief Tascalusa

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Description for The Search for Mabila: The Decisive Battle between Hernando de Soto and Chief Tascalusa Paperback. Offers a fresh perspective on the status of the search for Mabila, a small fortified border town within an Indian province and a site where 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, took place. Editor(s): Knight, Vernon James. Num Pages: 344 pages, 33 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; HBLH; HBW; HDD; JWLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
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 land - proofs that would be necessary to attract future colonists.Facing such a severe setback, De Soto led his army once more into the interior of the continent, where he was not to survive. The ragtag remnants of his once-mighty expedition limped into Mexico some three years later, thankful to be alive. The clear message of their ordeal was that this new land, then known as La Florida, could not be easily subjugated. But where, exactly, did this decisive battle of Mabila take place? The accounts left by the Spanish chroniclers provide clues, but they are vague, so lacking in corroboration that without additional supporting evidence, it is impossible to trace De Soto's trail on a modern map with any degree of certainty.Within this volume, 17 scholars - specialists in history, folklore, geography, geology, and archaeology - provide a new and encouragingly fresh perspective on the current status of the search for Mabila. Although there is a widespread consensus that the event took place in the southern part of what is now Alabama, the truth is that to this day, nobody knows where Mabila is - neither the contributors to this volume, nor any of the historians and archaeologists, amateur and professional, who have long sought it. One can rightfully say that the lost battle site of Mabila is the predominant historical mystery of the Deep South.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Alabama Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817355425
SKU
V9780817355425
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Vernon James Knight Jr. is Professor of Anthropology at The University of Alabama.

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