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Topic: Chamuscado and Rodriguez Expedition

Chamuscado and Rodriguez Expedition

Years: 1581 - 1582

The Chamuscado and Rodriguez Expedition visits New Mexico in 1581-1582.

The expedition is led by Francisco Sanchez, called "El Chamuscado," and Friar Augustin Rodriguez, the first Spaniards known to have visited the Pueblo Indians since Francisco Vásquez de Coronado forty years earlier.

"{Readers} take infinitely more pleasure in knowing the variety of incidents that are contained in them, without ever thinking of imitating them, believing the imitation not only difficult, but impossible: as if heaven, the sun, the elements, and men should have changed the order of their motions and power, from what they were anciently"

― Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)