what was vasco nunez de balboa original purpose of his journey?
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 In 1822 , there was an attempt , known as the Ducoudray Holstein Expedition , conceived , carefully planned and organized by General Henri La Fayette Villaume Ducoudray Holstein to invade Puerto Rico and declare it a republic . 

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 Arriving in Puerto Rico , in January 1521 , he received the terrible news that the Dominican convent at Chiribichi had been sacked by Indians , and that the Spaniards of the islands had launched a punitive expedition , led by Gonzalo de Ocampo , into the very heart of the territory that Las Casas wanted to colonize peacefully . The Indians had been provoked to attack the settlement of the monks because of the repeated slave raids by Spaniards operating from Cubagua . As Ocampo 's ships began returning with slaves from the land Las Casas had been granted , he went to Hispaniola to complain to the Audiencia . After several months of negotiations Las Casas set sail alone ; the peasants he had brought had deserted , and he arrived in his colony already ravaged by Spaniards . 

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 Spanish Cuban colonial official Francisco Saavedra cooperated in the decision @-@ making that enabled de Grasse 's northward expedition . 

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 A controversy that has occupied scholars for more than a century concerns whether Cabral 's discovery was by chance or intentional . If the latter , that would mean that the Portuguese had at least some hint that a land existed to the west . The matter was first raised by Emperor Pedro II in 1854 during a session of the Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute , when he asked if the discovery might have been intentional . 

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 The Cabrillo Festival each October is a weekend @-@ long commemoration of the landing of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo in Point Loma in 1542 . 
