Martín Fernández de Enciso
Spanish explorer
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expedition with Balboa
- In Vasco Núñez de Balboa: Career in the New World
…on an expedition organized by Martín Fernández de Enciso (1510) to bring aid and reinforcements to a colony founded by Alonso de Ojeda on the coast of Urabá, in modern Colombia. The expedition found the survivors of the colony, led by Francisco Pizarro, but Ojeda had departed. On the advice…
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