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Narvaez landed and claimed FL
Source: Historical proof of the right of the Catholic King to the territory held to-day by the British King under the name of New Georgia #558
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On the fourth of April, 1528, Narvaez landed and in the name of the King took possession of the country with the greatest solemnity; but the hardships which he suffered were so great, and the hostilities which he experienced from the Indians were such that he had to abandon the enterprise. 7. [Bolton note: For a brief account of Narvaez's expedition, see Bolton, The Spanish Borderlands, 19-25; a longer account is in Lowery, Spanish Settlements within the present limits of the United States, 1615-1681, Bk II, Ch. III. Sec also Barcia, Ensayo Cronologico, 9-13, 19-20; Hodge and Lewis, Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States (1907); Bandelier, A. F., and Fanny, The Journey of Cabeta de Vaca (1905).]
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