Join host Jack Maddox as he unravels the brutal true story of Hernando de Soto's catastrophic expedition through the American Southeast—a doomed quest for gold that sparked bloody battles, unleashed devastating plagues, and ended in desperate escape down the Mississippi River. A saga of conquest and collapse that changed history forever.

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Jack Maddox recounts the 1542 death of Hernando de Soto and his expedition's catastrophic end. After three years searching for gold across the American Southeast, 311 survivors fled down the Mississippi, abandoning 500 enslaved people, while indigenous societies collapsed from introduced diseases.

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Jack Maddox examines how Hernando de Soto's 1539 expedition through the American Southeast unleashed a devastating biological catastrophe. Exploring malaria, strategic violence, and the collapse of chiefdoms like Coosa, this episode traces how disease—not Spanish steel—reshaped an entire continent, killing millions and erasing civilizations before English colonizers ever arrived.

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Jack Maddox explores the Battle of Mabila, a brutal 1540 clash in Alabama where Hernando de Soto's Spanish expedition faced thousands of indigenous warriors in nine hours of devastating combat that nearly destroyed the conquistadors and left thousands dead on both sides.

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