Juan de salcedo biography of christopher

Spanish conquistador (–)

Juan de Salcedo (Spanish pronunciation:[ˈxwandesalˈθeðo]; – 11 March, ) was a Spanishconquistador.

He was the grandson of Spanish general Miguel López de Legazpi. Salcedo was one of the soldiers who accompanied the Spanish conquest to the Philippines in He joined the Spanish military in at age 15, on their voyage of exploration to the East Indies and the Pacific, in search of rich resources such as gold and spice, and to find a passage to the islands were the previous Spanish expeditions led by Ferdinand Magellan had landed in , and Ruy López de Villalobos in

In , at age 18, Salcedo the youngest soldier in the Spanish infantry, led an army of about Spanish and Mexican soldiers (Filipino and Spanish historian, Carlos Quirino estimated that over half of the expedition members where Mexicans of various mixed ethnicities, mainly Criollo, Mestizo and Indio, with the remaining being Spaniards from Spain)^[1] and Visayan all