Mauvilla located?

[Callaecus]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1872633/posts

 

It's out there. Somewhere underneath cat claw briars or mud flats or even modern subdivision tracts, there are shards of Spanish metal, burned clay and a palisaded wall waiting to be found, answering one of the South's famous mysteries: Where is Mauvilla?

Historians gleaning descriptions from written accounts of Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto's expedition across the South say the earliest and bloodiest battle between Europeans and Indians happened at Mauvilla, a fortified village that researchers spell a variety of other ways, including Mabila and Mavila.

It sat between two rivers likely somewhere in Alabama. The accounts describe the landscape, the village, the day-long battle and the weeks of recovery that the Spanish spent there after Mauvilla burned to the ground.

"It's the holy grail of sites in Alabama," said Stacye Hathorne, archaeologist for the Alabama Historical Commission. "It's fun to look for it. There are enough clues in the four known accounts of De Soto's travels here for it to be tantalizing. It's definitely findable, and could add volumes to what we know about early European contact with Indians."

Mauvilla, said Hathorne, "would be a world-class find."

 

My question is: why would Mauvilla be considered such a world-class find? Is it because it was the place of the first major engagement between Europeans and Indians in today

[ASCLEPIADES]

My question is: why would Mauvilla be considered such a world-class find? Is it because it was the place of the first major engagement between Europeans and Indians in today

[Callaecus]

The expedition of De Soto was one of the ultimate and farthest incursions of the Spanish Imperialism in the New World; the battle happened during the fall of 1540 and the Spanish got the worst part.

I wouldn

[ASCLEPIADES]

I wouldn

Edited August 1, 2007 by ASCLEPIADES