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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.
The fourth voyage of Columbus was a Spanish maritime expedition in 1502–1504 to the western Caribbean Sea led by Christopher Columbus.The voyage, Columbus's last, failed to find a western maritime route to the Far East, returned relatively little profit, and resulted in the loss of many crew men, all the fleet's ships, and a year-long marooning in Jamaica.
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"The Presumed North America on the Waldseemüller World Map (1507): A Theory of Its Discovery by Christopher Columbus". Terrae Incognitae. 46 (2): 86– 102. doi: 10.1179/0082288414Z.00000000034. Whitfield, Peter (1998). "The New World: 1490–1550". New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration. Psychology Press, Routledge. p. 53.
English: Map of Christopher Columbus fourth voyage, between 1502 and 1504. Français : Carte du quatrième voyage de Christophe Colomb , de 1502 à 1504. Equirectangular projection, WGS84 datum
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.
The four voyages of Christopher Columbus, 1492–1503. Portugal's Iberian rival, Castile, had begun to establish its rule over the Canary Islands in 1402 but became distracted by internal Iberian politics and the repelling of Islamic invasion attempts and raids through most of the 15th century. Late in the century, following the unification of ...
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