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Juan Ortiz cries "christiano!"

Juan Ortiz cries "christiano!"

Actor: "But in one of the first encounters we were taken completely by surprise. Not by an ambush, but by what we heard in the fight: 'Christiano!'"
Photo credit: Still frame from "Hernando DeSoto in America." Original video provided courtesy of the DeSoto National Memorial.

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