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Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1906. (ed., Different version available) Young, Alexander Bell Filson, Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery; a Narrative, with a Note on the Navigation of Columbus's First Voyage by the Earl of Dunraven, v. 2.
Cuba (European Portuguese pronunciation: ⓘ) is a town and municipality in the District of Beja in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 4,878, [ 1 ] in an area of 172.09 km 2 . [ 2 ]
Christopher Columbus [b] (/ k ə ˈ l ʌ m b ə s /; [2] between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian [3] [c] explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa [3] [4] who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
On August 3, 1392, Columbus set sail from Spain with three boats: the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. He reached land on October 12, and later that month, he sighted Cuba, which he thought ...
La Isabela was founded by Christopher Columbus during his second voyage, and named after Queen Isabella I of Castile. The settlement of La Navidad , established by Columbus one year earlier to the west of La Isabela in what is present day Haiti , was destroyed by the native Taíno people before he returned.
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The powerful Cacique Caonabo of the Maguana Chiefdom attacked the Europeans and destroyed La Navidad. In 1493, Columbus returned to the island on his second voyage and established the first Spanish colony in the New World, the city of Isabella. This time Columbus returned to Hispaniola with seventeen ships. The settlers built houses, storerooms ...