Francisco de Chicora escapes Spanish colonizers, returning to his people.

Francisco de Chicora was a Native man (possibly Catawba) who was kidnapped in 1521 near Winyah Bay (in what would become South Carolina) by Spanish explorer Francisco Gordillo and taken to Hispaniola. He learned Spanish and 'worked' for Lucas Vasquez de Ayllón, a colonial official who wanted to start a colony near where Chicora was kidnapped. Ayllon brought him to Spain where he used him to help convince the Crown to support his colonial idea. Upon approval, Ayllon with de Chicora, about 600 settlers, and an unknown number of enslaved Africans travelled back to Winyah Bay in 1526 to establish a colony. This date, August 9th is when they made landfall, crashing one of their boats on the sandbar and sinking it. Chicora escaped and presumably returned to his people. The colony failed with only ~150 successfully making it back to Hispaniola.