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 * Juan Ponce de Leon **
 * His nationality was Spanish
 *  He lived from 1460-1521
 * He had a career as a Courtier(a person who is often around royals), Explorer, and Solider
 * He was the first European to set foot in Florida
 * He discovered the Gulf Stream and was famous for searching the "Fountain of Youth"
 * Born in Santervas , Spain
 * In the 1490’s he was a privateer sailing the seas attacking ships that belonged to the Moors
 * In 1493, 25th of September, he sailed with Christopher Columbus
 * In 1512, 23rd of February, Charles V gives him a patent allowing him to discover the Island of Bimini (in the Bahamas)
 * Landed in Florida March 1513
 * Florida means “Land of Flowers”
 * In 1521 he returned back to Florida and started a colony
 * They were ambushed by the Calusa( an unfriendly tribe) and Ponce de Leon was hit in the leg with an arrow.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">He died at age 61 in Cuba because of the arrow wound
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">He claimed all of the land he found for Spain