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===Last voyage to Florida=== In early 1521, Ponce de León organized a colonizing expedition consisting of some 200 men, including priests, farmers and artisans, 50 horses and other domestic animals, and farming implements carried on two ships. The expedition landed somewhere on the coast of [[southwest Florida]], likely in the vicinity of [[Charlotte Harbor (estuary)|Charlotte Harbor]] or the [[Caloosahatchee River]], areas which Ponce de León had visited in his earlier voyage to Florida.{{sfn|Davis|1935|pp=51–66}} Before the settlement could be established, the colonists were attacked by the [[Calusa]], the [[Indigenous peoples of Florida|indigenous]] people who dominated southern Florida and whose principal town was nearby. Ponce de León was mortally wounded in the skirmish when, historians believe, an arrow [[Arrow poison|poisoned]] with the [[sap]] of the [[manchineel tree]] struck his thigh.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Swamp |first=Michael |last=Grunwald |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-7432-5107-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=olHjhlx0Em8C&pg=PA25 |page=25}}</ref> The expedition immediately abandoned the colonization attempt and sailed to [[Havana]], [[Cuba]], where Ponce de León soon died of his wounds. He was buried in [[Puerto Rico]], in the crypt of [[San José Church]] from 1559 to 1836, when his remains were exhumed and transferred to the [[Catedral Metropolitana Basílica de San Juan Bautista (San Juan, Puerto Rico)|Cathedral of San Juan Bautista]].{{sfn|Fuson|2000|pp=173–176}} Inscribed on the side panel of the altar-tomb in his mausoleum are these words in Latin: "MOLE SVB HAC FORTIS REQVIESCVNT OSSA LEONIS OVI VICIT FACTIS NOMINA MAGNA SVIS" ("Under this structure rest the bones of a lion, more for his great deeds than for his name").{{sfn|Villatoro|2021|p=}}
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