Life Before The Spanish Armada
Cuellar´s place and date of birth are unknown. Judging by the date he entered military service and by his his own account, that "I was in the army since I was able to be", he must have been born after 1563.
Cuellar was in the army that conquered Portugal in 1581. Following Rafael Giron, he was in the Diego Flores Valdes navy, which sailed to the Strait of Magellan, in the frigate Santa Catalina. He was in Paraiba, Brazil, expelling french settlers in the area. After that he served under the Marquis of Santa Cruz in the Azores islands.
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